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This guidance aims to help tutoring services to comply with the requirements of the Employment Agencies Act 1973 (the Act) and Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003 (the Conduct Regulations).
A Guide for Employers and Employees to the role of the Central Arbitration Committee (CAC) for these regulations
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…
Research on how employers view, and respond to, the employment regulatory framework. Employment relations research series number 123.
When a business changes owner, employees could be protected under the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) regulations (TUPE) - types of transfers, your rights, contracts, redundancy, where to get help
Assesses the effect of regulation on employment and growth. Includes international comparisons and historical context.
How to protect your employment business, and the workers you supply, from non-compliant businesses in your supply chain.
Discrimination policy and equal opportunities in recruitment and in the workplace - age discrimination, disabled workers, gender reassignment, sex discrimination
Employment status (worker, employee, self-employed, director or contractor) affects employment rights and employer responsibilities in the workplace
This instrument capitalises on opportunities for improvements in the employment rights space.
Guidance for employment agencies, employment businesses and the recruitment sector on the Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003.
A contract is an agreement between employee and employer setting out implied and explicit terms and conditions - written statement of particulars, collective agreements
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
Includes types of worker, employee rights, overtime and changes to contracts
How to know whether the operatives you deploy are employed or self-employed, and what this means for tax and national insurance.
Guidance on making a disclosure protected by the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998, (whistleblowing) to the Certification Officer
This collection brings together all documents in the Employment Relations Research Series.
Guidance for hirers of agency workers and the recruitment sector to understand the new Agency Workers Regulations.
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