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‘Know your rights’ : APSCo writes to minister

Thu, 26 Feb 2009

The Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo) has written to Pat McFadden, the minister for employment relations, criticising the government department’s ‘Know your rights campaign’ for agency workers.

In the letter, Ann Swain, APSCo’s chief executive, argues that  the leaflet promotes and encourages stereotyping of agency workers. 

Swain writes: “Agency workers, as you know, exist not only in more vulnerable sectors, but also in the high-end recruitment sector, such as those represented by APSCo members.

“There is a huge variety and diversity in agency workers and we believe this should be celebrated instead of sterotypes being encouraged in the manner of this leaflet.”

Swain reiterates that APSCo is “a strong supporter of the rights of agency workers”.

The APSCo letter builds on other criticism of the images in the campaign as reported in the 18 February issue of Recruiter.

Readers' comments (1)

  • Rolfe Pearce MBA | Thu, 26 Feb 2009 4:02 pm

    Here we go again, between the REC and now APSCo we will now have a battle for the great and the good of the "industry" to see how far up the political chain they can get with the pointless posturing and commenting to make their own position as a lobbying group look good.

    I always make sure that all agency workers can easily find a link to the full range of their rights on our website, direct links to government telephone lines. I tend not to see this type of open discourse on many "industry websites", we also hear time and time again of people in our industry taking advantage of temp workers, stealing their holiday pay, not paying them properly, abusing them verbally and threatening them. I fervantly believe that it is about time that there was a national television campaign for ALL temp workers to tell them of their rights sponsored by the Unions and the CBI and nothing to do with the REC and APSCo. We would soon see who among the industry would come out with a clean bill of health, and which organisations they are a member of.

    Kind Regards

    Rolfe Pearce MBA

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