Freelance workers

The UK's tax authorities suspect large businesses of underpaying £1.4bn in employment taxes as they promise to crack down on ‘hidden employees’.

How does the Harpur Trust v Brazel judgment affect how HR calculates holiday pay for employees? Jo Moseley explains

Pedal Me, Gorillas and Getir ride high in the worker-friendly rankings while Deliveroo and Just Eat slip down the table.

Food delivery business Deliveroo has agreed a recognition deal with trade union GMB covering the company’s 90,000 drivers and riders....

The Court of Appeal judgment in Pimlico Plumbers v Smith ruled that holiday pay can carry over and accumulate until a contract ends. Holly Milne examines the detail

Off-payroll working reforms have resulted in increased use of ‘rogue’ umbrella companies, a House of Lords committee has claimed.

Thee public sector faced challenges with the initial rollout of the off-payroll working reforms in 2017, including having little time to prepare and finding it difficult to use the original CEST tool.

A heating engineer who claimed he was owed holiday pay by Pimlico Plumbers after the Supreme Court ruled that he...

Is freelance life better? Will free tea and coffee motivate a return to the office and what body language should we deploy when we get there? These are the big questions this week …

Lord Hendy’s Status of Workers Bill would see a simplification of laws governing how workers are categorised, if successful.

Despite the coronavirus pandemic, HR professionals have had their fair share of employment law rulings to keep track of in...

The introduction of IR35 reforms this year had a “significant and damaging” effect on contractors and the firms that rely...

A significant proportion of mid-sized organisations are still not confident in their ability to comply with the IR35 changes that...

More than a third of contractors have been forced out of self-employment over the past 12 months because of the...

Purplebricks and Yopa face class action from agents over employment rights.