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Find out if you're an employment intermediary and what you need to do to make sure your worker's tax and National Insurance is paid correctly.
As an agency worker, you have certain rights when using temp, recruitment agencies or employment agencies to find work - pay, holidays, equal treatment, fees.
You’re an agency worker if you have a contract with an agency but you work…
Recruitment agencies cannot charge you a fee for finding or trying to find…
Your agency must give you information about the work they’re trying to…
From the day you start work you have a worker’s employment rights. You…
You’re entitled to the National Minimum Wage for all the hours you work,…
You may be able to get Statutory Maternity Pay, but you cannot get…
Entertainment agencies can charge you a fee: for finding you work, for…
Fashion and photographic model agencies can charge you a fee for finding…
Anglian Water Services Ltd has been ordered to pay over £50,000 in case brought by Environment Agency.
Employment Tribunal decision.
The rules for employment agencies and businesses: licences, vulnerable people, opting out, job advertisements, transfer fees, trade unions, terms and conditions and contracts, travel and accommodation for work-seekers
Employment Appeal Tribunal judgment of Judge Tayler on 22 May 2024.
Employers' responsibilities when using agencies to find staff, including health and safety, access to facilities, vacancies, continuous employment, transfer fees and complaints
We protect the rights of agency workers by ensuring that employment agencies and businesses treat their workers fairly. EAS is part of the Department for Business and Trade .
First published during the 2015 to 2016 Cameron Conservative government
This research is part of the Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence (GAGE) programme
In a recent public inquiry, Traffic Commissioner for the East of England, Richard Turfitt, took action following attempts to circumvent the HM Revenue and Customs guidance on the employment of drivers.
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