What is an agency worker?
As an agency worker you will either have a contract for service or a contract of employment with the agency who finds you work. This work is often called ‘temporary work’, ‘temping’ or ‘agency work’. The firm who hires you pays a fee to the agency, and the agency pays your wages. The agency has to pay you even if the hiring company has not paid the agency. Agencies cannot charge you for finding work (although there are some exceptions if you are looking for work in the entertainment or modelling industries). There are several advantages to being an agency worker, you can: • use it as a stepping stone to the job you want • use it as a way of entering or re-entering the job market • use it to work more flexibly to help balance domestic responsibilities • move jobs easily and with little or no notice • try out different kinds of work Flexibility for both worker and employer is one of the features of agency work. As an agency worker you have the flexibility to take up and leave jobs at sho
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