Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Core Group Limited is committed to privacy for everyone who accesses their website. This Privacy Policy sets out how Core Group Limited uses and protects any information that you give us when you use this website.

  1. What Information We Collect About You and How It Is Used

1.1 Contact Us Form and Data Collected

Core People Limited t/as Core Group (hereinafter referred to as Core Group) collects Personal Data about you to help in the recruitment process and assist in the provision of contingent labour to third parties. This Data consists of information including your name, address, e-mail address, work and education history and your responses to and the results of assessments administered through the Core Group website, plus details of your eligibility to work. If you are a seeking work, we will also ask for details of the kind of work you are looking for and your preferred work location. If you decide to upload a CV, cover letter, personal statement or other similar document or information we will keep that information for as long you remain a registered client of Core Group. We process this Personal Data as necessary to;

  1. Facilitate the Recruitment Process.
  2. Provide our services to you.
  3. To market services.
  4. To advise you of news, industry updates and events.

In some circumstances, the data may be stored in our internal support system for further action. This data is stored indefinitely for reference, but you may request its deletion by contacting us (Please see contact details below).

1.2 Sensitive Personal Data

We collect and process Sensitive Personal Data only so far as is necessary and in compliance with all applicable legislation. By using the Core Group website and by registering your details with us, you consent to us collecting and processing Sensitive Personal Data supplied by you and disclosing this information to prospective employers and clients in connection with the recruitment process.

1.3 Newsletter Sign-Up Form

When signing up to the newsletter, you consent for us to collect your email address which is shared with a third-party email marketing provider called Mail Chimp. This data is then used to generate marketing material which you will receive periodically. You can unsubscribe to the newsletter at any time using the link provided in each newsletter. Further information regarding Mail Chimp’s Privacy Policy can be found on their website at www.mailchimp.com.

  1. Transfer of Personal Data to Third parties

We may pass Personal Data to Third Parties that help us to process Personal Data, to prospective or intended employers (or third parties assisting them in the recruitment process) or customers for the purpose of recruitment. All the above excludes text messaging originator consent and opt-in data; this information will not be shared with any third parties.

  1. Safeguarding of Personal Data

The security of your Personal Data is extremely important to us. Access to your Personal Data is only provided to our staff and Third Parties who help us to process data to prospective employers or customers in order to help with the Recruitment Process.

  1. Third-Parties

Core Group uses Google Analytics to measure advertising performance and improve the quality of the adverts you see.

  1. Cookies

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit to identify you. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide relevant information to you. We use cookies to save information about what type of job you’re looking for. This allows easy access to our site, with recommendations that are relevant to you. If your computer is shared by other people, we advise that you untick the ‘keep me signed in’ checkbox when you sign in to www.coregroup.org.uk. This will remove all details from the cookie. Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

  1. Your Rights

You have a number of individual rights relating to the processing and storage of your personal data.

These are as follows:

  • The right to be informed
  • The right of access
  • The right to rectification
  • The right to erasure
  • The right to restrict processing
  • The right to data portability
  • The right to object
  • Rights in relation to automated decision making and profiling Further information can be found on the Information Commissioner’s Office website at ico.org.uk.
  1. Withdrawal of Consent, Erasure, and Information Access

Please contact us using the details specified in the section labelled Data Controller (below) if you wish to undertake any of the following; • To withdraw your consent for activities for which you have previously consented • To request a copy of the information that we hold on you • To request the deletion of information that we hold on you.

  1. Removal of Your Name and Personal Data From the Core Group Data Base

You can contact us to request removal of your name and personal data at any time, which will be confirmed by Core Group within 72 hours of your request.

  1. Changes to the Core Group Privacy Policy

This privacy policy is reviewed and updated periodically and was last updated on 1st May 2018.

  1. How to Contact Us

Please contact us if you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or the information that we hold about you. This can be done by emailing us at info@coregroup.org.uk or by writing to us at the address detailed below.

  1. Data Controller

Core People Limited t/as Core Group – Unit 2 Kings Court, Burrows Lane, Gomshall, Guildford, Surrey, GU5 9QE

  1. Data Protection Team

Core Group – 142 Old Shoreham Road, Hove, Brighton, Sussex, BN3 7BD

 

INITIAL TERMS ~ WORK SEEKER’S AGREEMENT

Core People LTD are engaged as an Employment Business, governed by the provisions of the Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses 2003 to provide work finding services to candidates registered with us.  To enable us to provide our services we will hold your details on our candidate database.

When suitable work is found, Core People LTD will engage with our hirer clients for the supply of your services to them, either through supply directly by us or supply via an intermediary contracting company. If Core People LTD find suitable work which you wish to undertake, you will be deemed a Temporary Worker and, if your services are to be engaged via a contracting intermediary company, they will ask you to enter into a separate agreement at that point which will detail the terms and conditions which will apply.

The terms which govern the service which we provide to you are detailed below;

DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION


In these Terms the following definitions apply:
“Agency Worker”                          means “you”, supplied by the Employment Business to provide services to the Hirer;

 

“Assignment”                                means assignment services to be performed by the Agency Worker for the Hirer for a period of time during which the Agency Worker is supplied by the Employment Business to work temporarily for the Hirer;

 

“Employment Business”              Core People LTD of Unit 2, Kings Court, Burrows Lane, Gomshall, Guildford, Surrey, England, GU5 9QE

 

“Hirer”                                             means the person, firm or corporate body together with any subsidiary or associated person, firm or corporate body (as the case may be) to whom the Agency Worker is supplied or introduced;

 

“Hourly Rate”                                 means the prevailing rate of the National Minimum Wage, relevant to the age of the Agency Worker, being the minimum gross rate of pay that the Employment Business reasonably expects to achieve, for all hours worked by the Agency Worker;

 

“Type of Work”                              the description of work vacancies which you have confirmed that you want the Employment Business to seek on your behalf.

 

Unless the context otherwise requires, references to the singular include the plural and references to the masculine include the feminine and vice versa.

The headings contained in these Terms are for convenience only and do not affect their interpretation.

Any reference, express or implied, to an enactment includes a reference to that enactment as from time to time amended, modified, extended, re-enacted, replaced or applied by or under any other enactment (whether before or after the date of these Terms) and all subordinate legislation made (before or after these Terms) under it from time to time.

THE CONTRACT

These Terms constitute the entire agreement between the Employment Business and the Agency Worker for the supply of work finding services.

The Employment Business shall act as an employment business (as defined in Section 13(3) of the Employment Agencies Act 1973) when introducing or supplying the Agency Worker for Assignments with its Hirers.

ASSIGNMENTS AND INFORMATION TO BE PROVIDED

The Employment Business will endeavour to obtain suitable Assignments for the Agency Worker to perform the agreed Type of Work. The Agency Worker shall not be obliged to accept any Assignment offered by the Employment Business.

The Agency Worker acknowledges that the nature of temporary work means that there may be periods when no suitable work is available and agrees that:

the suitability of the work to be offered shall be determined solely by the Employment Business; and

the Employment Business shall incur no liability to the Agency Worker should it fail to offer Assignments of the Type of Work or any other work to the Agency Worker.

At the same time as an Assignment is offered to the Agency Worker, the Employment Business shall provide the Agency Worker with an Assignment Details Form setting out the following:

the identity of the Hirer, and if applicable the nature of their business;

the start date of the Assignment and the duration or likely duration;

the duties to be performed, location and days and hours during which the Agency Worker would be required to work;

the Actual Rate of Pay that will be paid and any expenses payable by or to the Agency Worker;

any risks to health and safety known to the Hirer in relation to the Assignment and the steps the Hirer has taken to prevent or control such risks; and

what experience, training, qualifications are required by law to work in the Assignment.

Where such information is not given in paper form or by electronic means, it shall be confirmed by such means by the end of the third business day (excluding Saturday, Sunday and any Public or Bank Holiday) following save where:

the Agency Worker is being offered an Assignment in the same position as one in which the Agency Worker has previously been supplied within the previous 5 business days and such information has already been given to the Agency Worker and remains unchanged; or

subject to clause 5, the Assignment is intended to last for 5 consecutive business days or less and such information has previously been given to the Agency Worker before and remains unchanged, the Employment Business needs only to provide written confirmation of the identity of the Hirer and the likely duration of the Assignment.

Where the provisions of clause 4.2 are met but the Assignment extends beyond the intended 5 consecutive business day period, the Employment Business shall provide such information set out in clause 3.3 to the Agency Worker in paper or electronic form within 8 days of the start of the Assignment.

When an Assignment is offered to the Agency Worker, the Employment Business will confirm the manner in which the Agency Worker will be engaged.
Where the Employment Business engages the Agency Worker direct this will be via a Contract for Services on the basis that the Agency Worker is engaged as a limited company in a business to business arrangement, or;
In any other event, the supply of the Agency Worker’s services will be outsourced to a contracting intermediary company which will engage the Agency worker as an employee (on a Contract of Employment) or as a self-employed subcontractor (on a Contract for Services) as appropriate. They will confirm this at the time of engagement.


PAY AND DEDUCTIONS

For each Assignment, the Employment Business shall pay to the Agency Worker the Hourly Rate. The Actual Rate of Pay will be notified on a per Assignment basis and set out in the relevant Assignment Details Form but will always be equivalent to or greater than the prevailing rate of National Minimum Wage.
Payment will be made to the Agency Worker weekly in arrears, irrespective of whether the Employment Business has received payment from the Hirer.
It is the obligation of the Agency Worker to ensure that the timesheet record of hours worked is correctly completed and submitted on time for signature by the Hirer and onward provision to Core People LTD.

 

 

 

ANNUAL LEAVE


The Agency Worker is entitled to paid annual leave according to the statutory minimum as provided by the Working Time Regulations 1998 (WTR) from time to time. The current statutory entitlement to paid annual leave under the WTR is 5.6 weeks.


TERMINATION


Any of the Employment Business, the Agency Worker or the Hirer may terminate the Agency Worker’s Assignment at any time without prior notice or liability. Termination of an Assignment does not terminate the Contract for Services or Contract of Employment on which the Agency Worker is engaged.


DATA PROTECTION


7.2.        The Agency Worker acknowledges that the Employment Business must process personal data about him/her in order to properly fulfil its obligations under these Terms and as otherwise required by law in relation to his/ her engagement in accordance with the Data Protection Laws. Such processing will principally be for personnel, administrative and payroll purposes.