Employment Status: The tide turns on gig economy firms

A host of legal decisions, reviews and reports is calling into question the notion that workers such as Uber drivers and couriers are self-employed, writes Natalie Razeen ‘The courts and tribunals have always been willing to assess the reality of the relationship between the individual and the “employer” and recognise such individuals as being workers …
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Employment Status: Members and partners are left whistling

The Court of Appeal has held that LLP members lose employment rights but an independent contractor surgeon is ‘a worker’, reports David Ludlow A worker is ‘to some extent at least subordinate to the employer’ whereas ‘the partnership concept is the antithesis of subordination’. Employment lawyers and tribunals regularly deal with cases in which the …
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