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Davey: engage with Europe to avoid future AWRs from Brussels
Davey: don’t want another AWR The employment relations minister Ed Davey has outlined the ... month: “We don’t want another piece of legislation like AWR [Agency Workers Regulation], but legislation that is more in line with the ... time, but if we do that I think that we can stop things like AWR coming out of the Brussels legislative machine.” Davey added that ...
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Recruiter feedback will help make ‘best possible guidance’, says BIS
... best possible guidance on new Agency Workers Regulations (AWR), according to an official from the Department for Business Innovation & ... (ARC) and key representatives from BIS on draft guidance on AWR issued on 4 April. The official said: “The seminar that ARC hosted ...
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APSCo calls for caution on indemnity clauses
... liability for claims brought by agency workers under the AWR. These indemnity clauses mean that in the event that the end user fails to ... altogether, the recruiter is liable for the breach of the AWR. Ann Swain, chief executive of APSCo, says: “Would we have liked to ...
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Is the flexible market still working for the UK?
... work?” One option is an Agency Worker Regulations (AWR)-style approach [where certain rights kick-in after 12 weeks], he ... Email story to a friend Tags: AWR flexible working temporary working umbrella companies ...
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Recruiters warned about persuading temps to become PSC contractors
... equal pay claims under the Agency Workers Regulations (AWR), coming into force this October. However, Barrow warns that a high ... to PSC contractor status may not actually fall outside its [AWR’s] scope. The Chancellor’s recent IR35 policy decision may now mean ...
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Lamb replaces Davey as employment relations minister
... on the question of the Agency Workers Regulations (AWR). Marlowe, alongside welcoming Lamb into his role, calls the AWR his organisation’s top priority, both on certain “points of ...
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Transport & logistics
... autumn’s implementation of the Agency Workers Regulations (AWR), and employers looking to recruit direct or develop their own talent, the ... sector, a major concern affecting the sector is October’s AWR implementation, says Chidley. “The key point is that the flexibility that ...
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IR35: it's back, and it's personal
... through the complexities of the Agency Workers Regulations (AWR) legislation, another piece of contentious legislation is once again ... own personal service company (PSC) outside the scope of AWR? Kevin Barrow, a partner in Osborne Clarke’s recruitment sector team, ...
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Recruitment bodies hit back at Miliband’s comments on the Swedish Derogation
... Swedish Derogation, part of the Agency Workers Regulations (AWR) that came into effect in October 2011, employers can avoid paying agency ... in the same BT call centres, who qualify for equal pay under AWR. Among the companies known to have used the model are BT and Morrisons. ...
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Sector knowledge will improve M&As
... 8.3% think that repealing the Agency Workers Regulations (AWR) would drive more M&A. The findings indicate that either more ... issues are affecting people’s perspectives on M&A than AWR, or respondents are from more sophisticated agencies who are confident over ...