Employers warn on agency staff
David Frost, director general of the British Chambers of Commerce, has written to Business Secretary Lord Mandelson calling for implementation of the Agency Workers Directive to be delayed until the last possible date, October 2011.
Economic recovery will be undermined unless the government draws back from introducing new rights for agency workers in a way that damages the UK’s flexible labour market, Frost says in his letter.
Responding to the BCC’s claims that the directive would cost British industry £1.5 billion a year, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said:
‘”Every time workers get a slightly better deal employer organisations claim that the costs will cripple British business, yet somehow life goes on.
But the BCC has scored an even bigger own goal this time by putting a figure on just how much agency workers are losing out as second class workers.
All these regulations will do is go some way to stop unscrupulous employers using agency and temporary staff to avoid their proper responsibilities as employers.”
Source: APSCo
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