Clause 1
Temporary and Agency Workers (Equal Treatment) Bill
10:00 am
Jonathan Djanogly (Shadow Minister, Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform; Huntingdon, Conservative)
I am also unsure why employment agencies have been included in the provision. Under the definition in the Employment Agencies Act 1973, an employment agency provides services for the purposes of finding individuals employment or of supplying employers with employees. When that service is being carried out, the individual seeking work has no contract with the employment agency. It therefore makes no sense to compare the treatment of the said individual by the employment agency with a person who is employed under contract as a direct worker.
Amendment No. 2 is a strike-out provision with which we agree, but we consider that it should be discussed in the context of the clause as a whole. I therefore intend to include it in my comments on the clause stand part debate.