Agency Bullying tactics Again

[privateeye]

If an agent insists that you use a specific umbrella company and you are charged for using that umbrella, then are they not in breach of Employment Regulations that specifically state that a candidate must never be charged for looking for work which in effect is what they are doing.

Just a thought.

[Lucifer Box]

Ah, but by that stage you're not looking for work.

[The Lone Gunman]

Section 5.

Restriction on requiring work seekers to use additional services.

5. Neither an agency nor an employment business may make the provision to a work seeker of work finding services conditional upon the work seeker

a) using other services for which the Act does not prohibit the charging of a fee, or
b) hiring or purchasing goods

whether provided by the agency or the employment business or by any person with whom the agency or employment business is connected.

I suggest that this section prohibits such a practice, but I am not a legal bod.