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Loughborough MP Welcomes Announcement on Agency Workers Equal Rights
Posted on 22/05/2008
J. Milton
Andy Reed MP today welcomed the government’s decision to extend protection and equal rights to agency workers. The announcement of an agreement between the TUC and CBI on basic rights for agency workers shows the government’s commitment to workers. It also meets its twin aims of flexibility in the workforce for business and protection and equality for workers. The agreement offers agency workers increased protection and will guard against unfair wage undercutting as well as continuing to offer employers flexibility.
Andy welcomes the decision and offers his support for the agreement. The agreement offers workers after 12 weeks equal treatment as other workers in the same job. This is defined to mean at least the basic working and employment conditions that would apply to the workers concerned if they had been recruited directly by that undertaking to occupy the same job.
The new deal will bring approximately 1.4 million UK agency workers onto a level playing field with permanent staff over terms and conditions such as equal pay and holiday entitlement. But, it will not cover sick pay or pension payments, and temp staff will be required to work the same length of time as full-time workers to benefit from paid maternity leave.
The agreement is a leap forward in protection for workers after 6 years of deadlock and is good news for both business and workers.
Andy Reed, MP for Loughborough said:
“I thoroughly welcome this announcement and believe that all workers should be treated equally and fairly. It is great that an agreement has been reached on this issue.
This agreement today embodies both a sense of flexibility for business and protection and fairness for the worker and I fully support the agreement.”
Business secretary John Hutton described the agreement that the government struck with the CBI and the TUC as “the right deal for Britain”.
At next month’s EU summit it will be discussed if Britain will be allowed to opt out from EU rules that would restrict the number of hours worked per week to 48.