Everything you need to know about agency workers & whistleblowing

Whistleblowing in corporations is often taboo topic – but how do businesses treat temp workers, or agency workers, should a whistleblowing scandal erupt?

We spoke to Garry Pike, Associate at national law firm Bond Dickinson, who explained that most businesses that use agency workers work on an assumption that, as the agency workers are not their employees, they have few rights. 

“However,” he commented, “there are some exceptional circumstances in which agency workers can have rights against the business hiring them and we look here at an example relating to 'whistleblowing' rights.”

Due to national concerns that there was no real incentive for employees to blow the whistle, the UK Government brought about a legislation in 2013.