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The rules for employment agencies and businesses: licences, vulnerable people, opting out, job advertisements, transfer fees, trade unions, terms and conditions and contracts, travel and accommodation for work-seekers
If you run an employment agency or employment business you have to follow…
Some employment agencies need a licence if they are supplying specific…
Before placing a work-seeker with a hirer, you must get sufficient…
Before you supply work-seekers to work with vulnerable people you have to:…
Work-seekers registered as limited companies are also covered by the rules…
You must not advertise a job without the full details of the position. You…
If you run an employment business you can sometimes charge a transfer fee…
Employment businesses’ terms and conditions with work-seekers If you run…
You cannot refuse to provide services to work-seekers or to provide them…
You can charge for other services like CV writing and transport to jobs.…
You must not introduce or supply a work-seeker to a hirer unless you’ve…
Accommodation When a job involves working away from home and the…
Find out about the off-payroll working rules (IR35) for agencies, when the changes to these rules apply and how the changes will affect you.
A table giving details for MCA approved recruitment and placement agencies.
Employment agencies and businesses must keep proper records and can be inspected by the Employment Agency Standards (EAS) Inspectorate; the records you must keep, how long to store them and what happens if you're inspected
We protect the rights of agency workers by ensuring that employment agencies and businesses treat their workers fairly. EAS is part of the Department for Business and Trade .
Find out about non-compliant umbrella companies using employment agencies to sell their tax avoidance schemes.
Employers' responsibilities when using agencies to find staff, including health and safety, access to facilities, vacancies, continuous employment, transfer fees and complaints
As an agency worker, you have certain rights when using temp, recruitment agencies or employment agencies to find work - pay, holidays, equal treatment, fees.
Rules covering how entertainment and modelling agencies work; charging fees and refunds for for finding work
This guide has been produced to assist government and public sector organisations with writing agency briefs when buying communications and marketing services.
Understand the characteristics of executive agencies and the processes for creating and reviewing them.
How schools can get value for money, avoid fees and find local agencies who complete thorough background and safeguarding checks.
Guidance for employment agencies, employment businesses and the recruitment sector on the Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003.
Information for childminders and providers of childcare on domestic premises wishing to register with a childminder agency.
Information from government departments, agencies and public bodies, including news, campaigns, policies and contact details.
Use this form to appeal to the First-tier Tribunal (Care Standards) against a decision in relation to registration of your establishment agencies.
Guidance for anyone wanting to register and operate as a childminder agency.
How the government prepares and plans for emergencies, working nationally, locally and co-operatively to ensure civil protection in the UK.
Information about flexi-job apprenticeships using approved agencies, in occupations that often use short-term contracts or other non-standard employment models.
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