Employment status

New and updated

• Cases on appeal

  Type:

  Law reports

  Updated to reflect that the Court of Appeal allowed the appeal in Kostal UK Ltd v Dunkley and others.

• IR35: HMRC's defence of status tool is like 'climate change denial'

  Date:

  23 May 2019

  Type:

  News

  Campaigners have accused HM Revenue & Customs of acting in a manner "akin to climate change denial" in its defence of its Check Employment Status for Tax (CEST) tool.

• What challenges will HR face in the next 10 years?

  Date:

  29 April 2019

  Type:

  Commentary and analysis

  Making predictions for the workplace is fraught with risk but Emma Shipp and Lynne Adams take a punt on technological change, new legislation, societal trends and, yes, Brexit, to lay out the likely challenges for HR professionals over the next 10 years.

• Statutory rights available to workers/employees/employee shareholders

  Type:

  Quick reference

  Updated to reflect that the right to an itemised pay statement has been extended to workers, from 6 April 2019.

• Courts should fast-track gig economy cases: Frank Field

  Date:

  25 March 2019

  Type:

  News

  Gig economy cases challenging employment status should be "fast-tracked" through the judicial system to ensure that exploitation of workers is tackled quickly and effectively, MP Frank Field has recommended.

• IR35 in the private sector: what constitutes 'reasonable care'?

  Date:

  25 March 2019

  Type:

  Legal guidance

  The government has recently published a consultation paper with its proposals to extend off-payroll working rules to the private sector. Employers will need to take "reasonable care" that they have assessed employees' tax status, but what does that mean? Joe Tully, managing director of Brookson Legal Services, explains.

• Pimlico Plumbers worker loses his claim for £74,000 in holiday pay

  Date:

  22 March 2019

  Type:

  News

  An engineer who won a Supreme Court case against Pimlico Plumbers - establishing that he was a worker and not self-employed - has lost his tribunal claim for £74,000 in holiday pay.

• Consultation on off-payroll working rules (IR35) for the private sector from April 2020

  Type:

  Consultations

  The Government consults on proposals to implement the reforms to the off-payroll working rules (IR35) for the private sector from April 2020.

• National Gallery lecturers win 'worker' status

  Date:

  1 March 2019

  Type:

  News

  A group of art lecturers who lost their jobs at the National Gallery have won their legal fight to be recognised as workers, allowing them to claim certain employment benefits such as holiday pay.

• What defines a self-employed person?

  Type:

  FAQs