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- Date:
- 20 April 2018
- Type:
- News
MPs have accused the Government of being too slow to act on recommendations that would protect the rights of gig economy workers and people on zero-hour contracts.
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- Date:
- 3 April 2018
- Type:
- Legal guidance
With greater scrutiny of employment status by HMRC, employers need to look carefully at their off-payroll labour arrangements, argues Hilary Stokes - employer solutions manager at Menzies LLP.
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- Date:
- 27 March 2018
- Type:
- News
Parcel delivery company DPD is to give self-employed drivers access to benefits such as paid annual leave, sick pay and pension entitlement through a new self-employed worker contract.
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- Date:
- 2 March 2018
- Type:
- News
The Independent Workers' Union of Great Britain (IWGB) has claimed it is the first union in the UK to be recognised by an organisation that uses gig workers.
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- Date:
- 27 February 2018
- Type:
- Law reports
In Uber BV and others v Aslam and others [2018] IRLR 97 EAT, the EAT held that Uber drivers are "workers" for the purposes of statutory employment rights.
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- Date:
- 26 February 2018
- Type:
- Legal guidance
Consultant editor Darren Newman considers the arguments before the Supreme Court in Pimlico Plumbers Ltd and another v Smith, which was heard on 20 and 21 February.
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- Date:
- 12 February 2018
- Type:
- News
HMRC collected £819m in additional tax through payroll investigations last year, as it continued to crack down on organisations that wrongly classify workers as self-employed.
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- Date:
- 9 February 2018
- Type:
- Commentary and analysis
When the Government revealed its plans to bolster workers' rights from their first day at work under its Good Work plan earlier this week, details were initially scarce.
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- Type:
- Employment law manual
Updated to include information on the Government's consultation on employment status, in response to the Taylor review.
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- Date:
- 8 February 2018
- Type:
- News
Couriers delivering emergency blood supplies have won full employment rights in an out-of-court settlement with pathology company The Doctors Laboratory (TDL).
