AWR Impact Assessment Results
From researching the results obtained from the AWR Impact Assessment survey, we have analysed how the Agency Workers Regulations will potentially affect each industry sector.
Looking at the average weeks worked, the average for each sector clearly demonstrates our clients have candidates working beyond the 12 consecutive weeks point. The highest being for Retail, which even had cases of candidates working for 185 weeks in total.
This highlights the importance and necessity to ensure that we can introduce effective methods when dealing with the legislation.
Business Services and Retail have the joint longest weeks worked average, which is 28. With the average being so high, companies in these sectors need to be prepared for most of their temporary workers to be affected by this legislation.
Construction had a very high number of hours worked; in some cases this was up to 126. Candidates were working at many different locations through multiple agencies.
The Care sector had candidates working a high number of weeks, at most, 4 different agencies. As the AWR period does not reset when a candidate moves agency, it is important that the worker is tracked effectively. In an industry such as care, consistent workers are import for the care of patients, therefore this explains the high number of weeks worked.
Facilities Management has a high average number of weeks worked , candidates had consistently worked beyond the AWR qualifying period.
The Logistics sector may be the industry most significantly affected by the AWR; the longest assignment was for 181 weeks. Candidates on average have worked at 3 agencies ranging at up to 16 different locations. The impact of the AWR upon this sector could be severe as temporary labour usage is considerably high in comparison to many other industries.
Manufacturing in some cases had agency staff working at 10 different locations through up to 4 agencies. Manufacturing managers need an AWR solution that is implemented in a way that reduces their administrative burden, so they can continue using temporary agency workers to adapt to their customers’ demands.
The Waste industry will also be significantly influenced, as the average weeks worked was far beyond the AWR qualifying period. The highest number of locations for one candidates was 34, which would make it very difficult to track the candidate due to the diluted amount of sites they have worked at.