To think this is unfair

[Lucky2shoes]

Dp has been at his place of work coming up to a year and although he is employed through an agency he is now regarded as one of the team but they have been struggling to find orders hence not enough work for dp it's been like it a while and his foreman has fought to stop him been layed off like many other agency staff.
However they decide to lay him off temporarily for 1 week before Christmas and have told him to come back the 2nd of January but I fail to see that anything will have changed the work is still gonna be dead.
Dp doesn't have holiday to cover this which means we will struggle financially.

He's agency staff so should know his role is temporary. What part of it do you think is unfair?

Unfortunately, however unfair it may seem, your DP is not contracted, permanent staff so they could have told him his position was no longer tenable and ended it. At least the foreman/manager is been fighting to keep him onboard - as it will be easier than having to train someone new up when the work increases. Perhaps there’s a permanent post coming up or the manager knows that work will pick up come the new year and wants competent staff available immediately.

I know how hard it can be as my husband went into work the last working week before Christmas 4 years ago today and, almost as soon as he arrived in the office he was called in and told that, as he couldn’t drive (they knew that when they took him on!) they were letting him go with immediate effect - we had 4 month old twins and I didn’t get any maternity payments because I was 6 weeks over the limit for when I was entitled to MA and wasn’t working so didn’t get SMP so we suddenly had no income, and no idea what we were going to do. It actually turned out that, 4 months later, he got a job working for Test & Trace contacting Covid positive people and their contacts, later becoming a team leader and worked for them until the service was closed down almost 2 years later.

He needs to look for a permanent employed position if he doesn’t like the terms of agency work. The situation he’s in is obviously going to make things difficult financially, but it isn’t unfair as it’s part and parcel of being agency staff - particularly not unfair if they’ve tried to keep him for as long as possible.

It is unfair. But that's the nature of not having a contract of employment. I'm sorry that this is the way the country has gone, its awful.

Are you saying they would have been better letting him go earlier so he could get work else where? Because if they told him they would keep finding work for him then that's a bit unfair as he's unlikely to find anything now.

He’s employed through an agency. If they’re bringing him back after Christmas when there’s not enough work I’d say he’s lucky.

(Said as someone who’s SE DH gets work via agencies).

Sorry that's fairly standard for agency workers. It's a compliment they'd tried to keep him as long as they did. I'd be handing out his cv to other agencies asap