AWR Week 12 Rights
The right to equal treatment applies only once a temporary worker has been in a role for 12 weeks
A break in assignment of more than 6 weeks 'resets' the clock
Rights to equal treatment include:
- Pay (Pay includes basic pay, holiday pay, overtime pay, bonuses linked to individual performance, vouchers that have a monetary value e.g. lunch or child-care vouchers, annual pay awards
- Rights to overtime etc.
- Where companies provide contractual arrangements for rest breaks, hours of work and annual leave that are more generous that the statutory minimum, then an 'Agency Worker' who is eligible must receive these enhanced benefits.
Rights the worker will not get include:
- Ability to claim unfair dismissal
- Bonuses (that relate to the hirers corporate performance or long service awards)
- Loans
- Expenses
- Company Pension Schemes(Agency Workers will be covered by new automatic pension enrolment schemes that will be phased in by the Government from October 2012)
- Health or Life Insurance/Assurance schemes
- Share Option Schemes
- Family-Leave Related Pay that is above the statutory minimum
- Occupational Sick Pay schemes (Agency Workers already have a right to receive Statutory Sick Pay)
- Payment for time-off for Trade Union activities
- Occupational Maternity/Paternity/Adoption pay
- Redundancy Pay Notice Pay (either statutory or contractual that is linked to the loss of employment).
