Effective 21 July 2022
The Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses (Amendment) Regulations 2022, SI 2022/852, repealed regulation 7 of the Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003, SI 2003/3319, which made it a criminal offence for an employment business to knowingly (including having reasonable grounds for knowing) provide temporary workers to an employer to perform the duties of workers taking part in an official strike or other official industrial action.
Thereby enabling employment businesses to provide agency workers to hirers during official strike or industrial action. UNISON has announced its intention to seek judicial review of this change.