Employers utilizing recruitment firms to discover short-lived or irreversible workers have specific obligations.

Recruitment firms that discover staff for other businesses, however pay the staff themselves, are understood as 'em ployment businesses'.

If you handle workers through an employment company, they are accountable for guaranteeing the workers' rights under working time and minimum wage rules.

Recruitment companies offering employees for agriculture, food processing, horticultural and shellfish-gathering markets are known as 'gangmasters' - if you utilize one, you require to make sure they are licensed gangmasters.

Employers' responsibilities

As an employer, you're responsible for:

- firm employees' health and security

• guaranteeing they have the same access to shared facilities as other employees
• letting them understand about pertinent job vacancies in your company
  
  However, you can stop providing work to an agency worker, as long as they're not utilized by you.
  
  Additional rights after 12 weeks
  
  After 12 weeks in the same task, agency employees are entitled to the very same conditions as staff members doing the exact same or similar work. This includes:
  
  - pay
• working time, rest durations and breaks
• night work
• yearly leave
• time off for antenatal consultations for pregnant workers
  
  For more information, see assistance on firm worker policies.
  
  Transfer charges
  
  Recruitment companies can charge a if you employ a worker directly, or an employee is provided to you through another recruitment company after their preliminary agreement. Recruitment firms should tell you in your contract if they mean to charge you move costs.
  
  When an agency employee begins work with you, a recruitment company can only charge a transfer fee if you take the employee on within either of the following periods, whichever ends later on:
  
  - 8 weeks of completion of their last assignment with you
• 14 weeks of the start of their first project with you
  
  If there has been a break of 42 days between the employee's assignments with you, the 14 weeks will begin from the start date of the most recent assignment.
  
  The recruitment company might also charge you a transfer charge if:
  
  - you present an employee to a 3rd party who then utilizes them during this period
• you utilize a worker presented to you by a recruitment firm before they have actually begun their assignment with you through the agency
  
  Extended hire duration
  
  If you utilize an employee provided to you by a recruitment company, the firm needs to use you an extended hire duration rather of charging you a transfer fee. This suggests they would continue to provide the worker to you for an agreed duration without changing the terms of the task. Once the agreed duration ends, you would use the employee straight with no transfer fee.
  
  A recruitment agency may charge you a transfer charge if they present a worker to you and you employ them:
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  - before they start resolve the recruitment firm
• through a various agency, before they start work through the introducing recruitment firm
  
  In both cases, the introducing agency should provide the choice of a hire period instead of charging you a transfer fee. The terms of this hire period need to be set out in your agreement with the recruitment agency.
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