TUC accused over equal pay claim

The TUC has been accused of putting jobs at risk after coming under attack from employers and recruitment firms for suggesting that agency workers are being denied equal pay because the Government has failed to put European rules into practice.

The union organisation has lodged a formal complaint to the European Commission about the issue, claiming that agency staff are being paid less than full-time employees in the same job.

Katja Hall, the CBI’s chief policy director, said: “The TUC appears to have conveniently forgotten that it signed up to the Swedish derogation as part of the deal that brought in the Agency Workers Directive. While businesses find the directive a nightmare to administer, the final deal carefully balanced the needs of businesses and employees.”

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