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Agency worker is the shorthand used to refer to workers who contract with an agency of employment but carry out work not for the agency but for the agency's client with whom they have no direct contractual relationship.  

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Agency worker is the shorthand used to refer to workers who contract with an agency of employment but carry out work not for the agency but for the agency's client with whom they have no direct contractual relationship. There are two categories of agencies, employment business and employment agencies1. The first supply their staff to work on a temporary basis for clients under the control of the hirer, they are usually paid by the agency. The second category introduces working people to be employed by or to establish a business relationship with the client themselves. A particular feature of this arrangement is that the worker will generally not be an employee of anyone. Difficulties arise as to the whether an agency worker is an employee of the agency or the client, because at common law, an agency worker is often not an employee of anyone. He is not an employee of...

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