Agency workers

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  FAQs

  Under the Agency Workers Regulations 2010, are agency workers entitled to be paid the same overtime rates as direct recruits?

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  FAQs

  How long a break between assignments can an agency worker take without bringing continuity of service to an end for the purposes of the Agency Workers Regulations 2010?

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  FAQs

  Under the Agency Workers Regulations 2010, who is responsible for ensuring that agency workers have access to collective facilities and job vacancies from day one of the assignment?

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  FAQs

  Under the Agency Workers Regulations 2010, who is responsible for ensuring that agency workers have the same basic terms and conditions as a comparable direct recruit?

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  FAQs

  What information must an employer that hires agency workers provide to the agency to comply with the Agency Workers Regulations 2010?

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  FAQs

  How should a hiring employer respond if it receives a request from an agency worker for information under the Agency Workers Regulations 2010?

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  FAQs

  Why do organisations that are not employment agencies need to consider the Agency Workers Regulations 2010?

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  FAQs

  Who is an "agency worker" for the purposes of the Agency Workers Regulations 2010?

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  FAQs

  In what way are agency workers' maternity rights enhanced by the Agency Workers Regulations 2010?

• Date:

  28 March 2011

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  No positive duty on employer to correct claimant's ET1 deadline mistake

  The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that the employment tribunal was wrong to decide that employers have a positive duty to correct employees or ex-employees in relation to misapprehensions that they have about time limits for bringing claims.