Health and Safety Law 2024 (October 2024)
The duties owed to pregnant workers under the Management Regulations cover temporary agency workers as well as permanent employees. The Agency Workers Regulations 2010 extended the right to a “maternity suspension” to all temporary agency workers who have completed a statutory 12-week qualifying period. Any pregnancy-related absence counts towards this qualifying period.
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