24-7 Response on Workers Regulations
24-7 Response Confirms That Agency Workers Regulations Have Increased Workload for Recruitment Agencies and Shortened Contracts for Temporary Workers
29 November 2011 – Watford UK, 24-7 Response, leading providers of recruitment services, confirmed that almost two months into the Agency Workers Regulations (AWR) being in effect that its administration workload has increased by at least 10% and the company is seeing additional costs.
24-7 Response Director Stuart Moss said, "As we suspected clients are less likely to keep temporary staff on after 12 weeks and want a 'recycling' which contravenes the regulations. The end result will be temps and clients don’t benefit and we as the agency will bear the additional workload and costs".
Stuart added, "The AWR was introduced with the intention of boosting the economy and benefitting workers who have been on agency for a long time by encouraging companies to offer long term agency workers permanent positions. It's a little early to say whether that will in fact happen however we are already seeing companies offering 10-week contracts and then rotating staff. This completely flies in the face of what AWR is supposed to be about. It’s not difficult to see that both clients and temporary workers will suffer. Clients suffer because they will have people changing roles affecting consistency and quality, and temps because their contracts will be shorter. While the philosophy of equal rights such as parity of pay for temporary and permanent staff is of course laudable in translation it doesn’t really seem to be benefitting any of the parties affected so far".
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Notes to editors
Photo: Director of 24-7 Response Stuart Moss
About AWR
Day one rights: all agency workers have the same rights as permanent staff to facilities such as canteens, childcare, parking etc. They must also have access to information on job vacancies.
Week 12 rights: after 12 weeks in the same job, agency workers have the same rights as permanent staff to basic working conditions such as annual leave, rest breaks and time off for ante-natal appointments.
About 24-7 Response
Established in 2002 and part of the 24-7 Group, 24-7 Response provides exceptional search and selection services for temporary, permanent and contract staff. The company specialises in the Transport, Industrial, Import & Export, Commercial and Aviation sectors and has 9 offices located in Watford, Basildon, Basingstoke, Bedford, Bristol, Heathrow, Northampton, Southampton and Worthing.
Collectively the team has over 150 years’ worth of experience "in house" and all consultants attain their M.R.E.C. accreditation within one year of joining the company.
http://www.24-7response.co.uk
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