All people at work, including agency workers, enjoy these rights from their first day of work:

• the right to be paid the National Minimum Wage;
• working time rights (including breaks, paid holidays and a limit on the working week);
• health and safety protection;
• the right to join a union;
• data protection rights (see the Information Commissioner's Office website);
• the right to be accompanied at a discipline or grievance meeting; and
• protection from unlawful discrimination.

From 1 April 2019, every worker - not just employees - is to have the legal right from day one to a written, itemised pay statement when they are paid their wages. Agency workers and employees already have a legal right to information about their pay and hours.