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Employment status: Trouble in the pipeline for employers post Pimlico Plumbers
Sean Nesbitt and Rachel Farr consider the lessons for businesses from the Supreme Court’s ruling in Pimlico Plumbers ‘Nothing short of an unrestricted right to substitution will defeat worker status.’ In the latest, and most authoritative, case on employment status, the Supreme Court has held that a supposedly self-employed plumber was in fact a worker. …
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- Autoclenz Ltd v Belcher & ors [2011] UKSC 41
- Cotswold Developments Construction Ltd v Williams [2006] UKEAT/0457/05
- Independent Workers Union of Great Britain v RooFoods Ltd (t/a Deliveroo) [2017] TUR1/985
- James v Redcats (Brands) Ltd [2007] UKEAT/0475/06
- Jivraj v Hashwani [2009] EWHC 1364 (Comm); [2010] EWCA Civ 712; [2011] UKSC 40
- King v The Sash Window Workshop Ltd & anor [2017] EUECJ C-214/16
- Leyland v Hermes Parcelnet Ltd [2018] ET/1800575/2017
- Pimlico Plumbers Ltd v Smith [2014] UKEAT/0495/12/DM; [2017] EWCA Civ 51; [2018] UKSC 29