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Agency Worker contravention of the Protection of Employees
(Part-Time Work) Act 2001 has occurred. The
Agency worker means an individual who relevant complaint form is available on
agrees with another person, who is carrying www.workplacerelations.ie or by contacting
on the business of an employment agency, to the Commission’s Information and Customer
do or perform personally any work or service Services on 1890 80 80 90. There is a right
for a third person (whether or not the third of appeal by either party to the Labour Court
person is party to the contract). A part-time from a decision of a WRC Adjudication Officer.
agency worker can only compare himself/
herself to a comparable employee who is also
an agency worker and a part-time employee, Additional Information
who is not an agency worker, cannot compare
himself to an agency worker. See the Explanatory Booklet on the
Protection of Employees (Part-Time Work)
Act 2001, a copy of which is available
Complaints on request, or downloadable from
www.workplacerelations.ie.
The 2001 Act provides a right of complaint
to the Workplace Relations Commission
(WRC) where an employee believes that a

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