HVCA Launches M&E Agency Labour Initiative

The Building Services Engineering Employment Agency Alliance aims to ensure agency workers supplied to the building services sector meet certain standards. Issues covered include financial standing, health and safety, and overseas workers. Under the scheme, workers should also hold relevant certification such as Skillcard or ECS card.

Commitments placed on labour agencies regarding overseas workers include: providing evidence that skills and qualifications are equivalent level to comparable UK workers; objectively verifying workers’ awareness of UK health and safety management culture; and categorising each worker’s command of English.

The HVCA will administer the scheme but the Alliance will have a separate identity and be run by its members – membership will be subject to a third party audit.