How do you treat your temps?
Posted 17 June 2008 at 2:23PM by Ian Betteridge in Doing business online
If you use temporary workers, you may be in for a shock. As part of a deal with the EU over working conditions, the government has agreed to give some 1.3 million temps equivalent rights to full-time permanent employees after just 12 weeks of employment.
That means salaries, holidays, overtime and rest periods must be equivalent - something that, at present, temporary staff are not entitled too no matter how long they have been employed.
The deal means that most staff with have a maximum working week of 60 hours, compared to the 48 hours of the rest of Europe, if they choose to "opt out" of the 48 hour working week
Tags: bt, bt broadbandoffice, employment law, eu, temps
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2. At June 22, 2008 8:59 AM, michael barnett wrote:
What nonsence, a just and fair society will also be a prosperous one. Employers have nothing to fear from treating all employees the same. Giving temporary workers the same rights as permenent ones will improve performance and dignity and allow the employee to feel valued not exployted
3. At June 26, 2008 9:22 AM, Penny Haywood wrote:
I'm all for treating people with dignity and have been well rewarded by temps who have remembered that and hired our services when they go on to a permanent job that more truly reflects their skills. It's also got to be a fair and just society for the people taking the risk in starting and running a business. Employers often pay a lot more for temps than regular staff if they get them through agencies - I assume that agency staff holidays etc are the responsibility of the agencies?
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