Temporary agency workers are due to get equal treatment rights, and the government is currently working on draft regulations to put this into UK legislation. We want to make sure that this is done properly so that agency workers get the rights they deserve. You can help by taking a few minutes to complete our survey.
Temporary agency workers are widely used by government and commercial sector employers.
While some agency workers just cover short-term absences, in many cases they do the same work as permanent or fixed and colleagues, often for extended periods of time and almost always on worse pay and terms and conditions.