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Your rights as an agency worker
1. When you're an agency worker
You’re an agency worker if you have a contract with an agency but you work temporarily for a hirer.
Agencies can include:
- recruitment agencies, eg ‘temp agencies’
- entertainment and modelling agencies
You’re not an agency worker if you:
- find work through an agency but work for yourself - you may be self-employed
- use an agency to find permanent or fixed-term employment - check with the company that hired you
- take a ‘pay between assignments’ contract - you’re an employee of the agency