Monitoring Temporary and Agency Staff: Who Is Responsible?
Temporary and agency staff sit at the center of a structural split: the staffing agency is their legal employer, while the host company controls their daily work, systems and devices. Every monitoring question that follows - who notifies, who collects, who may see - has a different answer than for direct employees. Most companies discover this the first time an agency worker asks what happens to their data, and the honest answer is often "we never decided". Deciding it in advance is cheap. THE SPLIT, PLAINLY - THE AGENCY EMPLOYS: contracts, payroll, HR processes, and typically the primary employment-law duties toward the worker. - THE HOST CONTROLS: badges, accounts, systems, workspaces - which is to say, the host operates nearly all of the monitoring surface. - BOTH PROCESS DATA: the host collects workplace data; portions flow back to the agency (hours for payroll, incident reports). That flow makes the parties' roles a question to answer in writing, not assume. WHAT EAC...