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Agency Workers: Law and HR Best Practice

08:30
Registration and Welcome
09:20
Chair’s Welcome
09:30
Reviewing the Agency Workers Directive (AWD): Understanding the directive and its implications for your business

Michael Bradshaw, Partner, Charles Russell   

  • Legislative and political developments – what will the situation be by 2010?
  • Implications of the Agency Workers Directive – benefits and drawbacks from agency to end user
  • What issues, regarding the Agency Workers Directive still need resolving?
  • What terms and conditions will be covered?
  • How will a comparator be defined?
  • How will the 12-week qualifying period be calculated?
  • Other legal developments
  • What approach should UK businesses adopt when hiring agency workers?
10:15
Agency workers: status, rights and implied contracts of employment

Nick Hurley, Partner, Charles Russell

  • Overview of the current legal framework surrounding agency workers
  • Employment status - rights and liabilities - where are we now?
  • Tax consequences of using agency workers in your business
  • Avoiding an ’implied’ employment contract
  • Practical considerations and solutions to minimise liability risks
11:00
Coffee
11:15
A debate: Different perspectives on the impact of the AWD on business and HR

Neil Carberry, Head of Employment Policy, CBI and Sarah Veale, Head of Equality and Employment Rights Department, TUC

  •  The importance of agency working to the UK economy
  • The need for a clear definition of basic pay and working conditions and comparator
  • The importance of the directive only covering genuine agency temps, rather than all workers who utilise flexible working patterns.
  • The TUC view on how the new legislation will impact on agency workersQualifying periods, comparators, enforcement
12:00
Best Practice HR case study: How does Siemens manage its temporary and interim workforce?

Steve Lewitt, Director Human Resources, Mobility UK Division, Siemens

  • Optimising the use of temporary staff
  • Engaging a temporary workforce 
  • Examining the benefits and avoiding the potential pitfalls
  • Dealing with grievances, dismissal, redundancy, sickness and holiday within a temporary workforce
12:30
Lunch
13:30
The future of temporary labour in the UK

Kevin Green, Chief Executive, Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC)

  • Defining the concept of an agency worker and considering current rights in light of recent case law developments.
  • Equal rights for agency staff?  
  • How will the current economic climate affect the frequent use of temporary labour?
14:15
HR case study: How does the Metropolitan Police Service optimise the use of temporary staff?

Debbie Dady, Head of Temporary Agency Workers, Metropolitan Police Service

  • Practical steps to introducing a Master Vendor Contract
  • Who is responsible: Procurement or HR
  • Working closely with Procurement
  • Choosing the right organisation to work with
  • Lessons learned in the Metropolitan Police Service
15:00
Tea
15:15
A recruitment agency perspective: maximising the triangular relationship

Andy Smith, Head of Regulatory and Public Affairs, Adecco

  • How agencies and clients should work together to manage the risk of engaging agency workers - pitfalls, problems and solutions
  • An agency perspective on the Agency Workers Directive – opportunities and challenges
16:00
Panel session: Addressing practical issues surrounding agency workers

Steve Lewitt, Director Human Resources, Mobility UK Division, Siemens

Debbie Dady, Head of Temporary Agency Workers, Metropolitan Police Service

Debby Ebanks, Category Manager, Metropolitan Police Service

Michael Bradshaw, Partner, Charles Russell

Nick Hurley, Partner, Charles Russell
16:30
Chairs closing remarks and close of conference

 

 
 
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The Conference exceeded my expectations and there was lots of highly useful information.

— Alison Jago, Personnel Manager,
Land Registry, Agency, Contract and Interim Workers Conference January 2008

Very useful. Thanks for all the advice. I particularly enjoyed the question forum.

— Alison Edelshein, Senior Manager HR,
LCH Clearnet

Informative, well organised event.

— Syed Bokhari, Business Support Manager,
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