Do Recruiters really understand the Agency Workers Regulations?! (Or, Yet another application of Supervision, Direction or Control)

The Agency Workers Regulations 2010 (AWR) came into effect on 1st October 2011. But even after all this time I am often asked whether they apply to particular situations when recruiters are placing Contractors with Clients. As most of us know, the AWR give agency workers the same or no less favourable treatment as comparable... Read more »

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Recruiters…”Supervision, Direction, or Control”…everything you needed to know but were afraid to ask!

As we all know, Supervision, Direction or Control (“SDC”) is one of the fundamental factors which determines the employment status of a contractor. Is the contractor supervised, directed, or controlled, in how they carry out their work for the client? Under the Intermediaries Legislation (aka IR35) the SDC test has already been in use to... Read more »

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