Employment status

New and updated

• Cases on appeal

  Type:

  Law reports

  Updated to reflect that the Court of Appeal will hear the appeals in Ali v Capita Customer Management Ltd and Hextall v Chief Constable of Leicestershire Police on 1 May 2019.

• Largest university in UK hit by boycott over outsourced staff

  Date:

  10 December 2018

  Type:

  News

  Academics, students and leading politicians have launched a boycott of the University of London in support of outsourced workers who have demanded equal terms and conditions with directly employed staff.

• High Court upholds Deliveroo self-employment and collective bargaining ruling

  Date:

  6 December 2018

  Type:

  News

  The High Court has held that Deliveroo riders are self-employed and cannot form a collective bargaining unit.

• Employment status: Private hire drivers were workers, rules EAT

  Date:

  22 November 2018

  Type:

  Law reports

  In Addison Lee Ltd v Lange and others, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) held that drivers who worked within the employer's private hire business were workers rather than self-employed.

• What is the difference between a worker who is an employee and one who is not?

  Type:

  FAQs

• EAT upholds decision that Addison Lee drivers are workers

  Date:

  15 November 2018

  Type:

  News

  Addison Lee has lost its claim at the Employment Appeal Tribunal that its drivers were self-employed.

• Judge takes appeal to be recognised as 'worker' to the Supreme Court

  Date:

  14 November 2018

  Type:

  News

  A judge who is attempting to be recognised as a "worker", therefore entitling her to certain employment rights, is taking her appeal to the Supreme Court.

• Swedish derogation repeal likely in gig economy shake-up

  Date:

  12 November 2018

  Type:

  News

  Prime minister Theresa May is planning a series of measures to toughen workers' rights, including the ending of the Swedish derogation rule that allows employers to pay agency workers less than their permanent counterparts.

• Consultation on changes to intermediaries legislation (IR35) for the private sector

  Type:

  Consultations

  Updated to include a reference to the Government's response to the consultation.

• TUC study highlights low earnings and slams 'sham' self-employment

  Date:

  1 October 2018

  Type:

  News

  Almost half of self-employed people aged over 25 are earning less than the minimum wage, according to new research.