Warehouse Staff Agency in Nottingham

Nottingham sits in the part of the country that works hardest between midnight and six. The air-freight and parcel networks based here move their volume overnight and the labour requirement follows it.

The freight geography around Nottingham runs on the M1, A52 and A46. Operators draw on the M1 junction 24 to 26 parks, Colwick and Blenheim and the employers booking temporary staff here are typically express parcel and air-freight network operators running overnight sortation.

The overnight express networks based at East Midlands Airport run their whole operation in a window of a few hours, so sortation, loading and shuttle work is concentrated into nights that must be fully staffed or not run at all.

Twilight picking from mid-afternoon into late evening, feeding the night despatch.

Warehouse cover runs around the clock on large sites — mornings, afternoons, twilight and nights, with 4-on-4-off and weekend blocks. Peak brings additional twilight and weekend shifts.

The same group of people across a peak block is a fundamentally better proposition than a rolling cast at the same headcount. The induction is paid for once, the system training is paid for once and by the second week the floor is running at something like the rate the plan assumed. That is the case for booking peak as a continuous block rather than restocking it weekly.

Every worker is on PAYE and receives a Key Information Document before terms are agreed, setting out the pay cycle, who employs them and what is deducted. Nothing is charged to a worker for finding them work. Holiday accrues under the Working Time Regulations and shows on the payslip rather than folded invisibly into a rate.

Equal treatment on pay and basic conditions applies after 12 weeks in the same role under the Agency Workers Regulations 2010. We hold the count per worker per role and raise it with you before the threshold rather than on the invoice that follows it.