Responding to claims by the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) that improving employment rights for agency workers would cost British industry £1.5 billion a year, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said: 'Every time workers get a slightly better deal employer organisations claim that the costs will cripple British business, yet somehow life goes on.' But the BCC has scored an even bigger own goal this time by putting a figure on just how much agency workers are losing out as second class workers.' This week's TUC poll of agency workers shows huge support for a better deal from agency workers and many stories of poor treatment.
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