Section 57ZR Employment Rights Act 1996

Section 57ZR of the Employment Rights Act 1996 is about Agency workers: supplementary. It provides as follows:

(1)Without prejudice to any other duties of the hirer or temporary work agency under any enactment or rule of law, sections 57ZN to 57ZQ do not apply where the agency worker—

(a)has not completed the qualifying period, or

(b)pursuant to regulation 8(a) or (b) of the Agency Workers Regulations 2010 ( S.I. 2010/93), is no longer entitled to the rights conferred by regulation 5 of those Regulations.

(2)Nothing in sections 57ZN to 57ZQ imposes a duty on the hirer or temporary work agency beyond the original intended duration, or likely duration, of the assignment, whichever is the longer.

(3)Sections 57ZN to 57ZQ do not apply where sections 57ZJ to 57ZM apply.

(4)In this section and sections 57ZN to 57ZQ the following have the same meaning as in the Agency Workers Regulations 2010—

“agency worker”;
“assignment”;
“hirer”;
“qualifying period”;
“temporary work agency”.

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