5th Article on Agency Worker Regulations AWR published
Friday 05 August 2011 by Ian PettmanThere are now five articles in the series on the Agency worker regulations which are coming into force on Oct 1st. The five articles discuss:
- The controlling factors that set the limits when a worker becomes enabled to claim parity with substantive employees.
- The maximum number of weeks that need to be considered for a worker who has a highly irregular work pattern but nevertheless will or will not meet the criteria for parity under the AWR act.
- How simple a report can we get out of a highly irregular worker which illustrates clearly their status in respect of various and multiple hirers.
- If a worker is scheduled on a day to day basis for weeks at a time and during this period is subject to a break which leaves the clock running....
- The act states that if one temporary (more or less full time) contract finishes and another temporary (more or less full time) contract start, the 12 week clock is reset - except...