Is this the latest red herring to be doing the rounds for
attention grabbing? Let us now mix in the words, reportedly,
secret, David Cameron. The Daily Telegraph reported that there was
a "secret" investigation of the AWR impact on the economic recovery
or lack of economic recovery.
Is this yet another case of a startling headline where the
conclusion is (often buried at the end of a progressively more
boring article) the opposite of the headline?
Watering down the AWR would be very important to both Agencies
and hirers. The final analysis of this article seemed to us to boil
down to:
There has been plenty of time to make minor changes so they
should have been done by now. Taking both this and the fact that
the legislation originated with the EU: it's now too late to get
any changes major or minor approved.
Which leaves the so called Nuclear option (talk about hype!)
of:
not implementing the AWR would result in substantial EU fines
and so isn't really an option.
Perhaps the best part of the article are the studied neutral
comments you'd expect at 4:00 in the morning from
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/8743377/David-Cameron-moves-to-water-down-new-EU-job-laws.html
So it's coming no matter if we like it or not. Perhaps best to
take the sage Victorian advice: lay back and think of England!
There is further comment from the Telegraph today on the effect
of AWR:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/jobs/8754844/One-in-three-employers-to-sack-agency-workers-after-new-EU-job-laws.html
Additional information
We have a number of questions with the Department of Business
and innovation relating to clarification on the AWR. The answers
when they come will be published in this section of our site.
