The Freelancer and Contractor Services Association (FCSA) has welcomed the Government’s consultation on modernising the agency work regulatory framework—but its response makes one thing clear: good intentions alone won’t guarantee good outcomes.
At a high level, the FCSA is firmly aligned with the consultation’s core aims. Improving worker protections, increasing transparency, and creating a fairer labour market are all goals it has long supported. In fact, many of these principles are already embedded in the standards FCSA requires of its accredited members. But the organisation is also urging policymakers to look carefully at how some of the proposals would work in practice, warning that a number of them could create serious knock-on effects across the labour supply chain.
