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Contractual clauses and the Agency Workers Regulations (AWR)
Contractors finding clauses relating to the Agency Workers Regulations in agency contracts needn’t necessarily be alarmed says Roger Sinclair of Egos.
�ncy Workers Regulations (AWR) being inserted into contracts by their agencies, but many such clauses should n� �s’ approach to risk is such that they will fill a contract with clauses to try and ensure that any conceivab�
Category: Articles: Agency Workers Regulations | Thu, 23 Feb 2012

Contracting, subcontractors and AWR: when do the Agency Workers Regulations apply?
Contractors subcontracting client work to other contractors may find the Agency Workers Regulations could apply.
�kers.’ And an agency worker ‘is someone who has a contract with the temporary work agency but works temporar�
Category: Articles: Agency Workers Regulations | Tue, 15 Aug 2017

Quick Start Contracting Guide: The Agency Workers Regulations
ContractorCalculator’s Quick Start Guide to the Agency Workers Regulations provides answers to your most frequently asked questions about the law.
�le trader, it is completely irrelevant if you are contracting direct with your client. However, as the vast maj� �ith your client. However, as the vast majority of contracts in some sectors, such as IT, are via agencies, th� �n permanent employees or offshoring temporary and contract roles to cheaper jurisdictions unaffected by AWR.�
Category: Articles: Agency Workers Regulations | Thu, 21 Sept 2017

Agency Workers Regulations – AWR risks for contractors, clients and agencies
Contractors, clients and agencies all face, and have to manage, risks since the Agency Workers Regulations come into force on 1 October 2011.
�ensure they do not have an adverse impact on the contracting supply chain. Clients, especially those with larg� �use fewer contractors, or to move operations, and contracts, outside the UK. The main AWR risks facing contra�
Category: Articles: Agency Workers Regulations | Wed, 27 Jul 2011

Hiring contractors – an overview
Contractors can bring huge benefits to a client organisation but they are not employees and need to be managed effectively to get best results.
�ctors predominantly use online job boards to find contracts, but there the similarity with employees ends. Co� �ensed, because good contractors don’t stay out of contract for long, so a client only has a small window whe�
Category: Articles: Hiring Contractors | Tue, 25 Aug 2009

Hiring a contractor – rates you should expect to pay
Rates vary hugely across the contracting sector and can depend on many variables. How can clients judge what rates they should pay contractors?
�rs to be worked, and any hours in excess of those contracted must be approved before the contractor works them� �. But the client and contractor must agree in the contract the number of hours to be worked, and any hours i�
Category: Articles: Hiring Contractors | Tue, 01 Sept 2009

Hiring a contractor directly without using an agency
Clients must understand the big differences between hiring contractors and recruiting employees, says Emma Brierley of recruiter Xchangeteam
�ctors, by their very nature, are being engaged on contracts on an ongoing basis. This means that the client’s� �soon as possible. This means negotiation of both contract rates and contracts , and the hard part in larger�
Category: Articles: Hiring Contractors | Tue, 15 Sept 2009

Reading and evaluating a contractor CVs
Clients used to recruiting permanent employees will find contractor CVs break lots of CV ‘rules’, but that’s because contractors are not employees.
�the contractor has successfully completed similar contracts for other clients If the contractor has made a go� �uiting could receive hundreds of CVs for a single contract, and will typically devote, at most, ten seconds�
Category: Articles: Hiring Contractors | Tue, 22 Sept 2009

How firms should conduct contractor interviews
Interviewing a contractor is not like an interview to recruit a permanent employee, it is more like receiving a sales pitch from a new supplier.
�cision Contractors that have long term successful contracting careers will also have good selling skills in edi� �red, knowing they have an hour at most to win the contract. In that time, a client has to make a decision as�
Category: Articles: Hiring Contractors | Tue, 29 Sept 2009

What a client needs to know about contract law
Contractors are not like employees and don’t have employment contracts. But they do have contracts, so clients need to understand contract law basics.
�nd the contractor or agency. If the contractor is contracting direct, the client will have the contract with th� �es. This will help them prevent any disputes over contracts escalating, as they’ll know when to call in exper� �Having an understanding of the principles of contract law is essential for clients hiring contractors.�
Category: Articles: Hiring Contractors | Tue, 13 Oct 2009