Do you really know your rights?

Employment Agency Legislation may protect you in many areas - in particular around confidentiality, 'stick-or-twist' and your right to information before you accept a post.

• Employment Agency legislation offers significant protection to work seekers.
• What is an Employment Agency?
• Why don't Deaneries admit they are Employment Agencies?
• Information given to work seekers
• The twist and stick dilemma
• Maintaining your confidentiality
• Training Programmes and Contracts of Employment
• If I withdraw from a job will the GMC be interested?
• I have been offered a place on one Training Programme, but haven’t heard yet from the one I prefer. What should I do?
• I think a Deanery has breached the regulations. What should I do?

This is of significant importance to any doctors caught up in the recruitment process, who would have been deprived of many employment rights by these proposals.

The legislation governing the conduct of Employment Agencies was passed by Parliament in order to give protection to vulnerable workers.

A government consultation in early 2009 stated that they “… consider that [Deaneries] operate as employment agencies within the definition contained in the Act” and that they wished to introduce an exemption. Their reasons for doing so were unclear.

The recent attempt to change the legal position of Deaneries has left more questions unanswered than ever before. The Remedy committee have summarised the key points that we would like to see addressed in the coming months.

We now invite feedback and further suggestions from our supporters, which we will collate and review.

We would be grateful if you could send suggestions to us at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it   by 15th February 2010. Or you can add your comments at the foot of this page.

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