Hundreds of agency staff are still waiting for back pay worth €2.5m; a year after a European Union ruling that they must be paid the same as Health Service Executive (HSE) workers. The Temporary Agency Work Act was introduced in 2013 and since July agency staff have been paid the same as directly employed workers doing the same job. The agency nurses and care assistants are owed eight months of back pay starting from December 2011 and have now been told that it will be early 2013 before they get it.
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