DTI Agency Workers Consultation – Action Is Needed Now Says UNISON Boss

Following pressure from UNISON and other unions, the Government today published a consultation document on plans to protect vulnerable agency workers.

The Temporary Workers (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Bill, brought by Paul Farrelly, Labour MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme, will need the support of 100 MPs to get beyond its Second Reading on 2 March.

The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) today set out a set of measures to tackle the problem in a strategy paper entitled