Give agency workers the same rights as permanent staff from day one. · petition

What the petition asks

Agency staff should not feel threatened with the loss of their job for speaking up about bullying, site safety standards and practices, permanent staff abusing positions regarding agency workers ECT. I and many other agency workers would like you to grant us the same procedures as permanent staff.

As a long term agency worker I have suffered mental and physical abuse in order to continue working at places, feeling as though if I speak up I’ll loose my job (as proven so many times before). I have spoken up about bullying, safety, abuse of power and unfair treatment and have received a call/text the next day saying “no longer required” yet I knew people on agency still working there even after I had been there longer. It’s affecting my mental and financial stability and also that if others.

Why it was rejected

It was not clear what the petition asked the UK Government or Parliament to do.

Petitions need to call on the Government or Parliament to take a specific action.

We understand that you are concerned about the rights of agency workers, but it's not clear exactly what you'd like the Government or Parliament to do.

From the day they start work agency workers have worker's employment rights, and after 12 weeks in a job they qualify for the same rights as someone employed directly, but this may not cover unfair dismissal, and unfair dismissal can only normally be claimed if an employee has worked for an employer for at least two years.

We could accept a petition calling for the 12-week qualifying period for equal treatment of agency workers to be abolished, or for agency workers to be given a right to claim unfair dismissal from day one, if those are things you want to happen.

Timeline

11 Jan 2021	Petition opened for signatures
18 Jan 2021	Rejected by the Petitions Committee