Recruitment agencies will be please to hear that the Recruitment and Employment Confederation is at the forefront for creating awareness about the impending Agency Workers Regulations by setting up a series of workshops.

The REC has already issued an AWR Implementation Pack, this was shortly followed by a webinar where 250 members logged on and asked questions about how these regulations will effect them and there clients.

Chief Executive, Kevin Green, stated that they requested the legislation early so that they can properly introduce and explain these changes to the industry. The need to understand this legislation is of paramount importance and the Workshops are a further tool to get the message out there.

The half-day workshops which are to be held in Birmingham, Leeds, London and Manchester from end of September until November. The response has been extremely good and the London event is fully booked and now waiting for additional dates.

Birmingham, September 30
Leeds, November 9
London, November 10
Manchester, November 18

For more details about this workshops, please visit http://www.rec.uk.com/awr/awrimplementationworkshops