Midlands Mp Leads Backbench Revolt Supporting Agency Workers

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A West Midlands MP has led a backbench revolt in a bid to ensure agency and temporary workers receive equal rights in the workplace.

Paul Farrelly (Lab Newcastle-under-Lyme) convinced fellow Labour backbenchers to defy the leadership and debate his proposals for new legislation. He hopes to force the Government to enact promises made in July 2004 to ensure agency workers receive the same wages, holiday entitlement and sick pay as other staff doing the same job.

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Midlands Mp Leads Backbench Revolt Supporting Agency Workers

As a backbencher trying to push through laws which are opposed by the Gove...

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