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Impact of Agency Workers Regulations: the 2012 XpertHR survey
In this article on the 2012 XpertHR agency workers survey, we examine the impact of the Agency Workers Regulations on employers' use of temporary staff.
Agency Workers Regulations 2010
We explain the effect of the Regulations and assess their likely impact. We also consider which aspects of the Regulations are most controversial and likely to be subject to legal challenge.
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The importance of communicating pay and benefits effectively
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Reward strategy: what are the benefits of a global approach?
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European Commission proposes new Directive on posted workers
The European Commission issued a draft Directive in March 2012 aimed at improving the enforcement and implementation of the 1996 Posted Workers Directive. The proposal includes a range of measures to prevent abuses and circumvention of the Directive's rules.
Draft EU Regulation clarifies relationship between business freedoms and workers' rights
In March 2012, the European Commission issued a draft Regulation that stipulates that, within the EU single market, the freedoms of businesses to operate across borders and workers' rights to strike and bargain collectively are on an equal legal footing, and neither takes precedence over the other. The proposal aims to resolve the controversy caused by a number of high-profile court rulings.
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Police detective wins disability discrimination claim
A round-up of links to news items on employment tribunal rulings in the week beginning 2 April 2012, including a police detective with progressive hearing loss who successfully argued that Warwickshire Police discriminated against her by not doing more to help her with the disability.
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Bleak outlook for unemployment in 2012 and 2013
High and rising unemployment is a matter of serious concern in the UK, particularly in light of the headline rate hitting a 17-year high of 8.4%, according to last month's data release from the Office for National Statistics.
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IMPACT OF AGENCY WORKERS REGULATIONS
The Agency Workers Regulations 2010 came into force on 1 October 2011. The Regulations give agency workers the entitlement to the same or no less favourable treatment as comparable employees with respect to basic employment and working conditions, if and when they complete a qualifying period of 12 weeks in a particular job.
So how are the Regulations bedding in? Prior to their implementation, there was a popular view that they would reduce employers' use of agencies. Our latest research finds that this is not necessarily the case: two-thirds of responding employers say there has been no change in their use of agencies to help find temporary staff.
However, it may be that the full impact of the Regulations is yet to be felt - the majority of employers think that they have placed a significant administrative strain on their organisation and the increased cost of using temps means their organisation is less likely to use them.
Elsewhere, we highlight a new tool that employers can use to train line managers in managing absence.
 Noelle Murphy
Employment relations,
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