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mas Euro MPs vote ti boost temps' rights
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• MEPs at the European Parliament have voted to give temporary workers the same statutory rights as full-time staff from the first day of their employment, rather than after 12 months as the UK government had hoped.
The draft Agency Workers Directive, which had its first reading in Brussels last week, is designed to give agency staff the same broad rights as those enjoyed by permanent staff in terms of pay holidays, pensions and other benefits.
But on a positive note for employers MEPs decided to give member states which do not currently use permanent or collective contracts for temporary staff—notably the UK and Ireland—a five-year exemption with respect of the need to provide equal pay.
The UK employs about a million temporary staff; more than any other EU country.
The Freight Transport Association, which canvass members' views on the iss recently, says hauliers have t main areas of concern. One it relation to maternity/patere leave; the other is over pre sion for disability.
One operator express reservations about having make physical alterations buildings in order to provi access for a tempore agency worker who was d abied and might only be w the firm for a short time.
The Confederation of Brit Industry and employmi agency Manpower had ix previously warned that the rul would damage flexibility a threaten jobs. A spokesman 1 Manpower's Driving Poe warns it may limit the use agency drivers; "Reducing 1 labour market flexibility, as I Agency Workers Directive wil its current form, could pit detrimental in tackling 1 driver shortage."