had been said, almost exactly the same Bill was reintroduced by Andrew Miller MP, with a small title change to emphasise "Equal Treatment" rather than "Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment". Identical in every way, save a tighter definition of employment agency and more provision for regulatory enforcement, it won the support of almost the whole Labour bench in the House of Commons. It was being heard in Committee each Wednesday morning as from 7 May. As of 21 May, the government said that it would table and move for Regulations. These passed (both Houses), received assent and became the Agency Workers Regulations 2010. They require a 12-week period of work before the rights to equal pay and time off begin. See also UK labour law Employment Agencies Act 1973 Gangmasters (Licensing) Act 2004 Employment Agency Standards Inspectorate Agency Workers Directive Notes References N Countouris, 'The Temporary Agency Work Directive: Another Broken Promise?' [2009] 38(3) ILJ 329 BA Hepple and BW Napier, ‘Temporary Workers and the Law’ (1978) 7 Industrial Law Journal 84, arguing that the problem is that the worker is not deemed an employee of the agency, and this would be consistent with the fact that the agency exercises a ‘residuum of control’ Mersey Docks and Harbour Board v Coggins and Griffith (Liverpool) Ltd [1947] AC 1; also they raise the problem of unequal pay for equal work. They advocate a separate category for temporary workers, and note that the Bullock Report had a six month work requirement that would’ve excluded them. E McGaughey, 'Should Agency Workers be Treated Differently?' (2010) SSRN External links Agency workers regulations Directive 97/81/EC on Part-time workers Implemented under Part-time Workers (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2000, SI 2000/1551 Directive 99/70/EC on Fixed term workers Implemented under Fixed Term Employees (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2002, SI 2002/2034 Powerpoint presentation on the state of the EU market from the European Confederation of Private Recruitment Agencies. Directive 91/383/EEC of 25 June 1991 supplementing the measures to encourage improvements in the safety and health at work of workers with a fixed- duration employment relationship or a temporary employment relationship. Agency Workers Regulations 2010, implementing the Directive in UK labour law Anti-discrimination law in the United Kingdom United Kingdom labour law Employment agencies of the United Kingdom Public employment service