German car giant, BMW, has re-entered negotiations with unions about its use of the Swedish Derogation model as an AWR solution.

We recently reported how BMW was heavily criticised by the Unite union for both its plans to close down its pension scheme and its use of the Swedish Derogation. Large employers such as Jaguar Land Rover, Morrisons, Premier Foods and Carlsberg have already gone on record as users of the model and BMW looked set to follow suit.

A BMW statement said: “The company and Unite, the union, have jointly agreed to enter into discussions relating to the use of agency staff. While these discussions are ongoing the company will not proceed with its plan to use regulation 10 of the Agency Workers Regulations [the Swedish derogation].”

As the negotiations develop we’ll keep a close eye on it and will report any news here.

Finally today, one sector of the UK that we receive a lot of AWR queries about is supply teachers and the staffing businesses that place them.

Supply teachers have very much been a special case on all things AWR and separate guidance was issued last summer.

The National Union of Teachers (NUT) has issued fresh guidance for its supply teacher members this week which you can access here.

Do you place supply teachers as part of your role or are you a supply teacher yourself? If so we’d love to hear from you. Tell us what you think.

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