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I have been working since I left university and have nearly always been in work but this has included a lot of agency work. I am of an age that I remember when agencies really came to the fore and I think they are partly to blame wages stagnating over the years, for working conditions plummeting, for people going to work when they're ill because they don't get sick pay. I would like to think of one good thing to say about employment agencies but I'm struggling.

I have worked for a drinks company for the last year and half through an agency. The company employs a lot of temps who feel like they are a sub-culture to the permanent employees. We do the same work but don't have the same rights and benefits. There was a time when a company had to take you on after a year as a temp but the agencies have even found a way around this. There are some temps here who have been here for up to 15 years. 15 years and still no workers rights or benefits.

I really would like to see the end of agencies but I don't see that happening but it is time that agency workers got the same rights as their permanent colleagues. Sick pay, fair holiday pay and the same perks that permanent employees get. After all, we do the same job so why do we not deserve the same benefits.

And I would like to companies like this one, once again be made by law to take on an agency worker on a permanent after a year's continuous service.

Petition text

I really would like to see the end of agencies but I don't see that happening but it is time that agency workers got the same rights as their permanent colleagues. Sick pay, fair holiday pay and the same perks that permanent employees get. After all, we do the same job so why do we not deserve the same benefits.

And I would like to companies like this one, once again be made by law to take on an agency worker on a permanent after a year's continuous service.

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