Is there a need to clarify the employment status of temporary agency workers?
Recent cases in the UK have suggested that agency workers will often in practice be employees of the client organisation to which they are allocated. A minority of agency workers are directly employed by the labour supplier (or employment business). It would in general be undesirable to require the client employer to take on the full responsibilities of an employer in the case of temporary agency workers since this would seriously damage the agency market and make it harder for employers to recruit temporary workers when needed for business reasons.
