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Temporary and Agency Workers (Equal Treatment) Bill

I want to make a point about call centres. It is great to have them in the United Kingdom—we have a lot of them, they provide jobs, and I suspect that many of them are agency jobs. If, all of a sudden, we start pricing those jobs out of this country, it would be easy for companies to start using call centres in India or other parts of the world, and that has been done. We are talking not about protecting agency workers but about removing jobs from this country and exporting them to other countries where, as my hon. Friend has just said, health and safety and pay may be much lower.
Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
472 c707-8 
Session
2007-08
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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