Employment Business
An employment business engages work seekers under either contracts for services or contracts of employment and supplies those work seekers to client hirers for temporary assignments or contracts where they will be under the hirers' supervision or control. This is usually known in the industry as the supply of temporary workers. A company engaged in both permanent recruitment and the supply of temporary workers will fall into the definition of both employment agency and employment business to reflect both sides of the business
D and P Recruitment Specialists use REC (our industry governing body) standard "Contract For Services (Terms of Engagement)".
Hirer
The word "hirer" is the person (including firms and corporate bodies) to whom temporary workers are supplied or to whom candidates are introduced for direct employment
Work Finding Services
These are the services provided by the agency and employment business to individuals either looking for permanent work or temporary work in order to help them find that work and include:
* The services it is providing to a candidate looking for permanent employment;
* Circumstances where it provides temporary work opportunities to temporary workers who it employs under contracts of employment (contracts of service); and
* Circumstances where it provides temporary work opportunities to temporary workers who it engages under contracts for services.
Work Seeker
This is the person looking for either/both permanent and/or temporary work and includes not only individual work seekers but also limited company contractors (including composite and umbrella companies) who have not opted out of the Regulations. Under this definition, a work seeker is not only a person that an employment agency or employment business provides work finding services to but also a person to whom it holds itself out to as being capable of providing such services. In other words both those actually working through the agency or employment business and those who may do so in the future.
This does not mean however that where the agency or employment business receives large numbers of speculative CVs that it cannot use, it is required to issue contracts to those persons or keep records in respect of them. The requirement to issue contracts and keep records only arises once the agency or employment business starts taking active steps towards placing a work seeker in work.