Agency Workers: Pay
(asked on 28th March 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of Regulation 10 of the Agency Worker Regulations 2010 on the pay of agency workers.
No assessment has been made of the effect of Regulation 10 or Part 5 of the Agency Workers Regulations on the pay of agency workers.
Following the Government response to the Taylor Review, the Government is currently consulting on the rules governing the use of agency workers and the use of pay between assignment contracts. Alongside the consultation, the Government also published a report by HOST Policy Research entitled Qualitative analysis of the use of Pay Between Assignment contracts for agency workers including the role of umbrella companies[1].