Article summary
(1) The following legislative changes come into force on 1 October 2011: (a) the Agency Workers Regulations 2010, which implement the Agency Workers Directive, giving agency workers a right to equal treatment with their directly recruited counterparts after 12 weeks in the job, together with the agency worker-related provisions of the Transnational Information and Consultation of Employee (Amendment) Regulations 2010 which require transnational employers to provide information to their employees and to consult with them at a European level about the operation of their business; (b) amendments to national minimum wage rates; and (c) amendments to the national minimum wage provisions so that students who work part-time for the higher education institution which they attend, will not be entitled to the national minimum wage accommodation offset in respect of accommodation provided by their higher education institution; and (2) although the Regulations phasing out the default retirement age of 65 have already taken effect since 6 April 2011 via transitional provisions, those transitional...
To continue reading this news article, as well as thousands of others like it, sign in with LexisNexis or register for a free trial