9:30am Registration and coffee
10:00am Introduction: Overview of the current UK market place
- How the procurement of skilled workers has developed over the last 30 years?
- Recent history of the industry
- Who the customers are?
- Who the suppliers are?
- How big is the market?
10:20am Delegates’ objectives
10:50am What employment rights do temporary and contract workers have? Will this change?
- Employment claims by contract workers and temps – Do users need to worry at the moment?
- Proposed UK extension of employment rights to all atypical workers
- Temporary (Agency) Workers Directive – Will contract workers and temps be given rights equivalent to comparable permanent workers?
- Position in the USA
- Likely final position in the UK
11:30am Refreshments
11:50am Legal and regulatory issues relating to the procurement of temporary and contract workers
Data Protection issues - Who owns the intellectual property in work created by contract workers?
The Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003
- Immigration law and FSA
- Discrimination: Sex, race, disability, age
- Tax issues: IR35, etc, what the end user needs to be aware of
- Recruitment regulations across Europe and the proposed Services
1:00pm Lunch
2:00pm Current trends: Managed service and preferred supplier arrangements
- Historical procurement of contract workers and temps
- Drivers for new strategies and how to implement them: Cost savings, efficient supply, minimise risk, added value, tax efficiency e.g. VAT
- Current things agencies are offering to do
- Offshore options
2:50pm Problems with current arrangements and how to avoid them
- Stakeholder buy in/volume issues
- Scoping issues
- Structure: Agency vs Principal
- Quality
- Migration and termination
- Confused pricing and payment arrangements
- VAT mitigation schemes
- Rate cuts and margin cuts
- Risk apportionment
3:30pm Refreshments
3:40pm How best to structure a procurement in the future
- Likely developments among suppliers and end users
- What to look for from a supplier in the future
4:15pm Questions and discussion
4:30pm Close