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Agency Worker Rights
The AWR 12-week rule and what changes for a worker once they hit it.
Holiday pay for agency and temporary workers: how accrual actually works
Rolled-up holiday pay is back for irregular-hours and part-year workers, but only under specific conditions — get the 12.07% mechanics wrong and it shows up as a shortfall on someone's payslip.
8 July 2026 · 5 min readThe AWR 12-week rule, explained
After 12 weeks in the same role with the same hirer, an agency worker becomes entitled to equal treatment on pay and core working conditions — and tracking that date accurately is entirely on the agency.
12 June 2026 · 4 min readWhat agency workers are entitled to from day one, and what comes after 12 weeks
Day-one rights and post-qualifying-period rights are genuinely different in scope — conflating them is one of the more common AWR misunderstandings.
15 May 2026 · 5 min readWhy tracking assignment length matters for AWR compliance
A spreadsheet tracking start dates works fine for a handful of placements. It gets genuinely hard to trust once an agency is running hundreds of assignments across multiple hirers at once.