2 Agency workers: right to request predictable work pattern
Workers (Predictable Terms and Conditions) Act 2023 (2023 c 46) | Legislation

2  Agency workers: right to request predictable work pattern

In the Employment Rights Act 1996, after section 80IE (inserted by section 1) insert—

“Chapter 3
Predictable Work Pattern: Agency Workers

80IF Statutory right to request predictable work pattern: agency workers

(1)     An agency worker may apply to a temporary work agency with which the agency worker has a contract to perform work or services personally (whether or not a contract of employment) for a change in the terms and conditions of the contract if—

(a)     there is a lack of predictability, in relation to the work that the agency worker is supplied by the temporary work agency to do for a particular hirer, as regards any part of the agency worker's work pattern,

(b)     the change relates to the agency worker's work pattern, and

(c)     the agency worker's purpose in applying for the change is to get a more predictable work pattern.

(But see section 80IG concerning restrictions on the making of an application.)

(2)     An agency worker may apply to a hirer under whose supervision and direction the agency worker is working for the hirer to enter into a contract of employment or other worker's contract with the agency worker if—

(a)

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