Temporary Agency Workers (Amendment) Regulations, 2025

L.N. 125 of 2025

EMPLOYMENT AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT

(CAP. 452)

Temporary Agency Workers (Amendment) Regulations, 2025

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by article 48(2) of the

Employment and Industrial Relations Act, the Minister responsible for

employment and industrial relations has made the following

regulations:-

The title of these regulations is the Temporary Agency Citation.

Workers (Amendment) Regulations, 2025 and these regulations shall

be read and construed as one with the Temporary Agency Workers S.L. 452.133.

Regulations, hereinafter referred to as the "principal regulations".

In sub-regulation (1) of regulation 2 of the principal Amends

regulations in the definition "outsourcing agency" immediately after regulation

the principal

the words "under the supervision, direction and control of the regulations.

outsourcing agency" there shall be added the words "or when the

assignment is at the discretion of the outsourcing agency".

In sub-regulation (1) of regulation 13 of the principal Amends

regulations the words "Employment Agencies Regulations." shall be regulation

the principal

substituted by the words "Employment Agencies Regulations:" and regulations.

immediately thereafter there shall be added the following new

provisos

"Provided that for the purposes of regulation 4, the

assessment of the basic working and employment conditions of

employees of outsourcing agencies, in the event that their

assignment with a user undertaking took place before the 1st of

January 2025, shall be assessed as if they had been assigned to

that user undertaking as of the 1st of January 2025

Provided further that for the purposes of regulation 5,

access to employment within the user undertaking by employees

of outsourcing agencies, when such user undertaking forms part

of the public service as defined in the Constitution, or is a body

established by the Constitution or by or under any other law, or

with any partnership or other body in which the Government, or

any such body as aforesaid, have a controlling interest or over

which it has effective control, shall be provided without

prejudice to article 110 of the Constitution.".

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