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Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Act 2012

Posted in : Labour & Superior Court Case Law Review Panel on 18 February 2015
Alastair Purdy
Purdy Fitzgerald
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Recent case law on Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Act 2012


The Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Act 2012 was enacted to give effect to directive 2008/104/EC. The operative Section of the Act is Section 6 which provides that an agency worker for the duration of his/her assignment with a hirer shall be entitled to the same basic working and employment conditions as the basic working and employment conditions to which he/she would be entitled if he/she were employed by the hirer under a contract of employment to do work that is the same as, or similar, to the work that he/she is required to do during that

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Alastair Purdy
Purdy Fitzgerald

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