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Brabners Chaffe Street continues national-level support for Agency Workers' Commission
3/06/2009

Leading law firm Brabners Chaffe Street LLP will provide legal guidance to the Recruitment and Employment Confederation`s (REC) Agency Workers` Commission, which has reconvened following the launch of a new Government consultation.

The consultation will look at the proposed new agency worker rights derived from the European Agency Workers Directive. The directive would give the same level of pay and annual leave conditions to temporary and agency workers as permanent employees after 12 weeks of employment.

The firm`s employment team, led by recruitment expert Paul Chamberlain, has worked with the Commission since early 2008 and will provide guidance on the Commission`s responses and recommendations on the new consultation. Paul is also the appointed legal advisor to The Employment Agents Movement (TEAM), one of the largest independent networked groups of recruitment and employment service providers in the UK.

Paul Chamberlain commented, "As with any EU Directive, the UK government is now facing the challenge of integrating a set of broad recommendations into its domestic regulation. The scope for interpretation of `equal treatment` is exceedingly wide and there still remains a raft of questions that cannot be yet be answered, despite industry speculation.

"The government needs to provide clear and concise guidance for the hundreds of thousands of British businesses that the Agency Workers Directive will affect, and we`ll be working closely with the REC Commission to ensure its members` recommendations and considerations are made within the consultation period."


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