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What are my rights as an agency worker?


I recently joined an employment agency and have been positioned as a receptionist at a health centre. I have been told that my rights will not be the same of an employee's rights. Could someone please clarify this. Thanks

Your employment contract is with your agency,pay,holliday and other entitlements are as per your agency contract.However the health and safety at work act gives you exactly the same on site benefits and entitlements as the other workers where you are,but,your safety equipment must be either provided by your agency or supplied on site.

You don't get sick pay for a start... I think you still get holiday pay but you may have to be with the agency for a certain amount of time.

read this page on www.hrmguide.co.uk/hrm/steele/january07.... hope it tells you what you need to know.

Unless your agency specifies that you are entitled to paid holiday leave and paid sick leave, then you will not be paid such entitlement. You take your holidays/are away ill at your own expense. You do not have security of employment, as the agency has control over your movements and can decide to transfer you elsewhere. You are effectively employed by the agency, but on terms which are not those of an employer/employee in a conventional working situation, as the agency is under no obligation to offer you work and can choose where to send you.

You are employed by the agency, so you would not get the same perks or contractual benefits that employees of the health centre would get. You are legally entitled to holiday pay, for example. However, unless your agency contract states otherwise, you are not entitled to sick pay, even if others at the health centre are.

There will also be differences when it comes to terminating your employment. By nature of the fact that you are (presumably) temporary, they are not obliged to keep you in constant employment, or provide a job at the same workplace.

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