PCG add to temporary workers directive debate
In follow-up to our recent blog article regarding The Temporary Workers Directive (TWD), please find below the Professional Contractors Group’s (PCG) stance on the impending changes:
The Professional Contractors Group (PCG), which represents the UK’s freelancers, is reassuring its members that the agreement announced today regarding “agency workers” will not have any immediate impact on them.
The Government, TUC and CBI have reached an agreement that “agency workers” should be entitled to equal pay and conditions after twelve weeks in a posting.
“The deal announced today represents the Government’s new negotiating position on the Agency Workers Directive – no more, no less,” commented PCG’s managing director John Brazier. “As with all other aspects of the Directive, it is not at all clear that freelancers are in scope: the precise scope of the measure will not be decided until the Government comes to implement it in the UK.”
PCG understands that today’s agreement on the twelve-week qualifying period has been reached as an alternative to setting up a “Commission” on agency workers, which will now not be taken forward. Instead, the Government will be seeking to secure the new arrangement in the text of the Directive.
PCG’s long-standing position is that it does not object to protection being extended to the genuinely vulnerable, but that any such measure must be very carefully defined, to avoid creating unintended consequences for freelance professionals, who are not vulnerable.
To view this article, and others from the PCG, please click on the following link:
Freelancers reassured over agency workers announcement
Jenrick CPI will be part of an Action Group, scheduled to visit the House of Commons on October 6th to clarify the Government’s stance on the Temporary Workers Directive (TWD).
For more information, please visit the Temporary Workers Directive (TWD) article on Jenrick CPI’s website.
Tags: employment law, pcg, temporary workers directive, TWD
