Section 68C — Employment Rights Act 1996: Right to remuneration

Right to remuneration 68C (1) Where the supply of an agency worker to a hirer is ended on maternity grounds, that agency worker is entitled to be paid remuneration by the temporary work agency. (2) An agency worker is not entitled to remuneration under this section in respect of any period if—

a the temporary work agency has—

i offered to propose the agency worker to a hirer that has alternative work available which is suitable alternative work for her for the purposes of section 68B, or ii proposed the agency worker to a hirer that has such suitable alternative work available, and that hirer has agreed to the supply of that agency worker, and b the agency worker has unreasonably refused that offer or to perform that work. (3) Nothing in this section imposes a duty on the temporary work agency to pay remuneration beyond the original intended duration, or likely duration, whichever is the longer, of the assignment which ended when the supply of the agency worker to the hirer was ended on maternity grounds.