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REC, the Recruitment and Employment Confederation, have responded angrily to claims by the TUC that Agency workers are continuing to receive unfair treatment in the workplace.

REC’s comments come after calls from the TUC for the Government to issue new directives giving agency workers more protection in the workplace.  The measures suggested by the TUC include ensuring temporary and contract workers have the same rights on pay, holiday pay and working time, after a 12 week qualifying period, as permanent employees.

The recommendations came after a survey, undertaken by the TUC, of 2,700 individuals who were either currently working as Temps or had done so in the last 12 months, which found that one in three said that permanent employees were paid more for doing the same job and that nearly half of all respondents received less holiday entitlement.

In addition, three in four respondents said Temps received less redundancy pay than their directly employed counterparts and more than two in three said permanent employees were entitled to more Maternity Pay than those working as Temps.

Responding to the claims and the recommendations made by the TUC, REC’s Chief Executive said in a statement released on the organisations website “The TUC survey is mostly based on perception rather than fact and the idea that temporary workers are systematically exploited and underpaid is wide of the mark”.

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