Great Britain: “Swedish derogation” legally allowing businesses to avoid the Agency Workers’ Act

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have asked their temporary work agencies to permanently hire the workers they send them, so that they don’t have to pay agency workers as permanent workers, which has been required by law since October 1st. These businesses are using the “Swedish derogation,” which is actually German, provided for in the Agency Workers’ Directive 2008/104. (Ref. 110652)

Supermarket giant Tesco recently confirmed its strategy: to avoid the statutory obligation of being subject to the new rules that give agen

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