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Agency Workers Directive

The main purpose of the Agency Workers Directive (AWD) is to ensure there is protection for temporary employees through a system of regulations, enforcing equal treatment and addressing unnecessary restrictions on the use of agency work.

The Agency Workers Directive will follow similar directives as those already in place for fixed-term and part-time workers; this essentially relates to basic working and employment conditions. One of the reasons that the Agency Workers Directive has come about is that the legal status of temporary workers is currently unclear under UK law, and this particular area of the sector is largely unregulated.

The Agency Workers Directive is due to come into force on the 1 October 2011. Official guidance is currently being prepared but is unlikely to be published until Feb/March 2011. The Recruitment sector is beginning to prepare for these directives now, as waiting for the guidance to be published will leave very little time to reduce the impact of what is one of the most significant and highly-debated pieces of employment legislation in the last decade.

Acolyte offers the necessary resources and expertise to assist Recruitment Consultancies through this era of change. Acolyte can work with your organisation to ensure that the potential increase in administration and compliance obligations does not have a negative impact on your sales in this volatile economic period.

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