Employment Agency Standards Inspectorate - GOV.UK

Employment Agency Standards Inspectorate

Part of Department for Business and Trade

We protect the rights of agency workers by ensuring that employment agencies and businesses treat their workers fairly.

Services

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Guidance and regulation

Providing a 'Key information document' for agency workers: guidance for employment businesses
- 7 April 2026
- Guidance
Agency Workers Regulations 2010: guidance for recruiters
- 25 March 2026
- Guidance

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News and communications

New protections for millions of vulnerable workers
- 16 July 2019
- Press release
Largest upgrade in a generation to workplace rights - getting work right for British workers and businesses
- 17 December 2018
- Press release

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Research and statistics

Analysis of the use of Pay Between Assignment contracts for agency workers
- 7 February 2018
- Research and analysis

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Policy papers and consultations

Labour Market Enforcement Strategy 2019 to 2020: government response
- 9 October 2020
- Policy paper
Government response to the Taylor review of modern working practices
- 21 December 2018
- Policy paper

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

Employment Agency Standards (EAS) Inspectorate: annual report, 2021 to 2022
- 26 June 2023
- Corporate report
Employment Agency Standards (EAS) Inspectorate: annual report, 2020 to 2021
- 9 June 2022
- Corporate report

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