AWR - What does it really mean ?.

SarEl

The regulations are employment law - the jurisdiction is an employment tribunals

katydog

I ve been working in the same place for my agency for the past 18 months .

Apart from one person who is a supervisor , all the staff on site are Agency workers .

4 weeks or so ago I was called by my Agency and told I was being pulled out because of the AWR rules with immediate effect .

My Agency is 2nd Tier agency and they blamed the Lead Agency for me losing my post as they hadnt informed my Agency about AWR and how they wanted the contract handled .

My query is starting from 01/10/2011 my 12 weeks were up on 24/12/2011 ....I worked for 17 weeks after the law came into being before losing my position. Has my Agency broken the law by not looking after my interests and keeping me informed of what was happening ?

I couldnt raise any answers so started a Grievance . Since then they have fallen over themselves to keep me sweet , phone calls , updates etc ..which I find odd considering the amount of Workers they have on their books . The one thing they have not done is answer my initial queries .

Can anyone help shed some light please ?

patman99

Have you also raised a grievance with the hirer?. Under AWR, they are jointly responsible so any grievance or legal action needs to be made against both the Agency and the Hirer.

I feel they have come to realize that you are more clued-up than they first hoped and are now trying to dig themselves out of a large hole.

As an update to my opening post and subsequent replies, My 12 weeks was up on 24th Dec. Having heard nothing by the 20th, I emailed the MD. 2 working days later I was told all agency contracts are now rolling rather than fixed-term. I'm still there and enjoying every minute.

farmerboy

katydog wrote: »

I ve been working in the same place for my agency for the past 18 months .

Apart from one person who is a supervisor , all the staff on site are Agency workers .

4 weeks or so ago I was called by my Agency and told I was being pulled out because of the AWR rules with immediate effect .

My Agency is 2nd Tier agency and they blamed the Lead Agency for me losing my post as they hadnt informed my Agency about AWR and how they wanted the contract handled .

My query is starting from 01/10/2011 my 12 weeks were up on 24/12/2011 ....I worked for 17 weeks after the law came into being before losing my position. Has my Agency broken the law by not looking after my interests and keeping me informed of what was happening ?

I couldnt raise any answers so started a Grievance . Since then they have fallen over themselves to keep me sweet , phone calls , updates etc ..which I find odd considering the amount of Workers they have on their books . The one thing they have not done is answer my initial queries .

Can anyone help shed some light please ?

These 2 agencies don't know what they are doing.

One of the contracts I go to is similar to this, i.e a supervisor and all agency staff. As there are no persons employed in a similar role (lorry drivers in my case) there is no base wage to go off, so no issue under AWR.

As an aside, out of the 20 different firm we goto, only 1 site causes any issues under AWR, at the rest we are paid more than their own drivers. The drivers that go to the other site are all on contracts with the agency under the swedish derogation.