The Agency Workers Directive will be implemented in the UK on 1 October 2011 through the Agency Workers Regulations 2010. The purpose of the Directive is to provide temporary agency workers with equal treatment in terms of basic working and employment conditions as if they had been employed directly to do the same job. This… Read more »
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Take Extra Care with New Staff
With school leavers hitting the workplace, now is an even more important time to protect them against accidents. A recent Health & Safety Executive document warned that workers are as likely to have an accident in the first six months at a workplace as during the whole of the rest of their working life. The… Read more »