http://www.antoniabance.org.uk/2008/02/28/temporary-and-agency-workers-bill/ Thoughts of Antonia, Labour activist and feminist in Oxford Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:37:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.antoniabance.org.uk/2008/02/28/temporary-and-agency-workers-bill/#comment-325198 Dale Evans Wed, 05 Mar 2008 20:14:01 +0000 http://www.antoniabance.org.uk/2008/02/28/temporary-and-agency-workers-bill/#comment-325198 Hve any of you thought about the effect this bill is going to have on the thousands of film and television creatives whose livelihood depends greatly on being connected to clients via agencies who specialise in placing Freelancers ( in the Industry sense of the word). This is of course a small and niche industry by national standards, but it is geared to using agencies, and pays substantial fees to the freelancers involved. They are not set up as contractors by & large as most fall under the Film & TV Guidelines exemptions. If your bill goes through it will kill off these niche agencies putting 100's out of woirk, and will make finding work/workers much, much more difficult for clients and freelancers. |Please consider creating an exemption for this industry. Hve any of you thought about the effect this bill is going to have on the thousands of film and television creatives whose livelihood depends greatly on being connected to clients via agencies who specialise in placing Freelancers ( in the Industry sense of the word). This is of course a small and niche industry by national standards, but it is geared to using agencies, and pays substantial fees to the freelancers involved. They are not set up as contractors by & large as most fall under the Film & TV Guidelines exemptions. If your bill goes through it will kill off these niche agencies putting 100’s out of woirk, and will make finding work/workers much, much more difficult for clients and freelancers. |Please consider creating an exemption for this industry.

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