EU Agency Workers Regulation - Overview and Summary of Requirements

• By: Staff Editor
• Date: October 27, 2011

Agency Workers Regulations 2010 are a statutory instrument. The regulations are part of the UK labor law. They aim to combat discrimination against people who work for employment agencies. Towards this end they lay down that agency workers should be no less favorably treated in pay and working time than their full-time counterparts, who do the same work. The regulations came into force on 1 October 2011.

This article gives a brief overview and summary of requirements of these regulations.