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REC members flex their imagination (and someone else’s muscles) for National Temporary Workers Week

From Mad Hatters to musclemen to MPs: there has been no end to the varied activities which REC members have been organising to mark National Temporary Workers Week.

Many members had their own take on the popular “Tea for Temps” theme. While WP Recruitment in Newport on the Isle of Wight were staging at Mad Hatter’s Tea Party, which won the REC Photographic Competition, The Business Connection in Chester were making theirs (a cup of tea) a strong one with a visit from the reigning Mr UK. 

And elsewhere, the new temping equivalent to Paul Potts or Susan Boyle was being sought through the Stafforce Has Got Talent awards open to all its branches. 

Discovering what life is really like as a temp was Anne Corder Recruitment consultant Nel Woolcott who took a day out from the Peterborough office to work at a local hospital in the place of one of its most experienced agency staff. 

The temps at Neaves and Neat in Ely, Cambridgeshire received cards, a lottery ticket and sweets while in the north east, The Early Years Service Ltd thanked its temps – all teachers and nursery nurses – by treating them to lunch. 

Appoint Personnel in Bath invited their clients to nominate their deserving temps for entry into a free prize draw to win a complimentary spa session.Other agencies celebrated by choosing their own top temporary workers  

On a more serious note, Dovetail Human Resource Services in Newbury is one of the hundreds of members that has contacted the REC wanting to know how to raise awareness of the possible impact of the Agency Workers Directive. As a result, it hosted a visit from Newbury MP Richard Benyon which Managing Director John O’Brien said went very well.