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Hi, I'm Andrew Goodman, Chairman of JSA. Welcome to my new monthly industry blog! I hope you find it interesting and informative. If you want to feed back any comments, please contact me on: andrewg@jsagroup.co.uk.

The Agency Workers’ Directive (AWD): your questions answered by JSA 

The Agency Workers’ Directive (AWD) has been on the horizon for a long time. On 21 January this year, following two rounds of public consultation in 2009 and an intensive eight-year lobbying campaign, the final regulations for the AWD were put before Parliament and published the next day. The regulations confirm that the AWD will not become law until October 2011.

PCG (formerly Professional Freelancers Group) has recently been lobbying the Government to recognise the value of freelancers in the labour market and when the AWD does become law, it is bound to revolutionise the freelance workforce.