UK agency workers lose out on £500m a year in missing holiday pay

Lack of alternative jobs is creating imbalance of power in workplace, report findsAgency workers are losing at least £500m a year in missing holiday pay and are being paid an average of 22p an hour less than employees for exactly the same work, an investigation into the fast-growing world of temporary work has revealed.Large parts of the UK economy, including transport, food processing and social care, rely on almost 1 million agency workers, 20% more than at the start of the decade. Trade