Posted By Ian Baker An employment agency is supplying temp workers ( one man through to whole gangs, but labour only ) to railway infrastructure maintenance companies. An auditor has stated that as full gangs may be supplied it is the responsibility of the employment agency to ensure welfare facilities are supplied rather than the maintenance company. I am disputing this as Employment agency are not in charge or control of the site. am I right or wrong ?

Posted By Brian Dawson If the employment agency is the employer (which I assume to be the case)then they have the legal responsibility under HASAWA. However, I would normally expect this to be agreed in the contract between the parties. Surely, we can accept that even Croner can't be expected to know everything off the top of their heads!

Posted By Ian Baker Thanks for your replies and I had already suggested a review of their contractural conditions and arrangements implict or assumed. You can trust Croner to have the answer but the reason for posing the question is to achieve input from us workers rather than the interlectuals in their ivory towers.