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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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The Year Ahead: What to expect in 2018

Matthew Towers and Emily Skinner outline the key developments that employers and their advisers should prepare for in the next 12 months ‘The Conservative manifesto and the Queen’s Speech made a clear commitment to act after the Taylor review to ensure that people working in the gig economy are protected. What form that action will …

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Gig Economy: The Taylor review – a missed opportunity?

Tim Leaver, Paul Young and Jemima Coleman summarise the key findings of the Taylor review and analyse its impact in the context of recent case law ‘There appears to be a focus on revenue generation for the Treasury and insufficient consideration of whether the proposals will unduly affect the feasibility of the gig model.’ After …

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Legal News: Employment update

Katherine Pope rounds up recent case law and developments affecting employers and their advisers ‘Referring to recent gig economy cases, the report concludes that the myth of self-employment frequently fails to stand up in court, but individuals face huge risks in challenging their employment status that way.’Nominal award for breach of the right to be …

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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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Employee Status: Is employment becoming obsolete?

The rise of independent contractors and Uber-style working models is posing a challenge for policy makers and law courts around the world, explains Sean Nesbitt ‘Only employees have certain key protections including minimum notice, consultation upon redundancy, redundancy payments and the right to claim unfair dismissal, as well as family-friendly rights.’ The US is awash …

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