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Employers using recruitment firms to find short-term or permanent employees have .

Recruitment agencies that discover staff for other services, but pay the staff themselves, are known as 'em ployment organizations'.

If you take on employees through a work service, they are accountable for ensuring the workers' rights under working time and base pay rules.

Recruitment companies supplying employees for agriculture, food processing, horticultural and shellfish-gathering markets are understood as 'gangmasters' - if you utilize one, you require to ensure they are licensed gangmasters.

Employers' duties

As an employer, you're responsible for:

- agency workers' health and security
- guaranteeing they have the same access to shared facilities as other employees
- letting them understand about appropriate job vacancies in your company

However, you can stop supplying work to an agency worker, as long as they're not employed by you.

Additional rights after 12 weeks

After 12 weeks in the same task, company employees are entitled to the same terms as employees doing the very same or comparable work. This includes:

- pay
- working time, rest durations and breaks
- night work
- annual leave
- time off for antenatal appointments for pregnant employees

For more details, see guidance on company worker regulations.

Transfer fees

Recruitment firms can charge a transfer charge if you utilize an employee directly, or a worker is supplied to you through another recruitment company after their initial agreement. Recruitment firms should tell you in your contract if they intend to charge you move charges.

When a firm employee begins work with you, a recruitment company can only charge a transfer fee if you take the worker on within either of the following periods, whichever ends later:

- 8 weeks of the end of their last task with you
- 14 weeks of the start of their first project with you

If there has actually been a break of 42 days in between the worker's assignments with you, the 14 weeks will start from the start date of the most current assignment.

The recruitment firm might likewise charge you a transfer cost if:

- you introduce a worker to a 3rd party who then employs them during this period
- you employ a worker introduced to you by a recruitment firm before they have begun their project with you through the agency

Extended hire period

If you employ an employee provided to you by a recruitment company, the firm should provide you a prolonged hire duration instead of charging you a transfer fee. This implies they would continue to provide the employee to you for a predetermined duration without changing the terms of the assignment. Once the agreed period ends, you would utilize the worker directly with no transfer cost.

A recruitment agency may charge you a transfer cost if they introduce a worker to you and you use them:

- before they begin resolve the recruitment company
- through a various agency, before they start work through the introducing recruitment firm

In both cases, the introducing agency needs to use the alternative of a hire duration instead of charging you a transfer fee. The terms of this hire duration need to be set out in your contract with the recruitment company.