Driving recruiters hit with 10-year ban

Driving recruiters hit with 10-year ban following EAS investigation Following an investigation by the Employment Agency Standards inspectorate (EAS), the directors of an HGV recruitment company have been banned from running an employment agency for up to 10 years. 

A hearing at Leeds Employment Tribunal heard how the businesses run by David Allon, Marc Hedley, Sian Pemberton and Angela Roberts broke the law by:

• failing tokeep records withholding payment of wages to drivers

• failing to issue terms of employment to drivers failing to carry out checks on drivers such as confirming their identity or that they held the correct driving licences and supplying drivers who did not hold the required licences.

• The agencies, which supplied HGV drivers to hirers in Yorkshire and the North of England and traded under various trade names including Driverwise Recruitability, Driverwise Recruitment,Driverwise/Staffwise, Recruitability, Recruit and Recruit Employment. They have been dissolved while the businesses have ceased trading
  

Thursday, 18th February 2010 – Recruiter Online News