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Agency workers rights: how could contractors be affected?
The newly proposed measures to give agency workers employment rights after 12 weeks are not welcome by contractors. However, there's been no sign that they won't be caught up in the legislation.
�fessional employment company, and as such all our contract workers already get these rights proposed, and mo�

Category: News | Thu, 29 May 2008


Labour signs EU agency workers directive with no opt-out for contractors
In a deal that extends working hours beyond the restrictive 48 hour week, Labour has signed-up to the EU’s Agency Workers Directive.
�businesses to hire staff for short-term seasonal contracts or key busy times." Although the new directive wi�

Category: News | Tue, 10 Jun 2008


Conference reveals troubled times ahead for contractors
Speakers at Lawspeed’s ‘Knowledge is Power’ event this week announced that the newly adopted Agency Workers Directive could have far reaching effects on the UK’s contracting industry.
�the Agency Workers Directive , delegates from the contracting, recruitment and end-client sectors were told tha� �ing for umbrella companies and who generate their contracts via agencies will find themselves in a similar si�

Category: News | Fri, 27 Jun 2008


Agency Workers Directive looms, yet still no opt-out for contractors
With the Agency Workers Directive expected to come one step closer to becoming law today, what are the implications for contractors?
�before renewal becomes necessary. Damaging to the contracting sector Ensuring that the legislation does not dam� �d find themselves working on multiple consecutive contracts lasting 11 weeks and 6 days before renewal become�

Category: News | Tue, 07 Oct 2008


Agency Workers Directive opt-out for UK contractors is looking increasingly likely
An Agency Workers Directive opt-out for UK contractors is being backed by UK parliament’s Regulatory Reform Committee Chairman Andrew Miller.
�vered by the AWD is given as: “... workers with a contract of employment or employment relationship with a t�

Category: News | Mon, 13 Oct 2008


Survey shows UK agency workers don't want employment rights
British contractors almost uniformly reject the employment rights offered under the Agency Workers Directive.
�well-paid, and prefer the flexible lifestyle that contracting affords, as the comments accompanying our survey� �prefer to run their own businesses and work under contract rather than become employees of specific companie�

Category: News | Mon, 27 Oct 2008


Recruiter body defends contractors’ rights in new Agency Workers Directive proposals
The Association of Recruitment Consultancies proposes a two-tier system for the Agency Workers Directive that won’t impact on contractor livelihoods.
�sponsive economy ARC points out that agency staff contracted over longer periods and working on complex projec� �workers under the AWD after only 12 weeks into a contract. If this were to happen, the resulting cost to en�

Category: News | Tue, 02 Jun 2009


Momentum builds to exclude contractors from ‘harmful’ Agency Workers Directive
The Association of Professional Staffing Companies adds its voice to the rising number of bodies calling for contractors to be outside the AWD.
�BIS is seeking the opinions of key players in the contracting sector, and contractors are urged to send their r�

Category: News | Tue, 23 Jun 2009


Agency Workers Directive seminar reveals government threat to contractor livelihoods
The threat to contractors’ livelihoods from the AWD come from UK government, and not the EC, according to legal specialists, Lawspeed, and others.
�states will be affected. This can only mean fewer contracts available for contractors and, in some discipline�

Category: News | Fri, 26 Jun 2009


Mixed news for contractors as the final BIS consultation on the AWD is held in London
Ltd company contractors probably excluded but umbrella contractors most likely included following the final consultation on the AWD at BIS in London.
�says that a worker “is someone who works under a contract of employment” and then goes on to say: “Any othe�

Category: News | Wed, 15 Jul 2009


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