Freelance workers

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

HM Courts and Tribunals Service has become the latest government department to fall foul of IR35 rules.

The Home Office is the latest government department to fall foul of the government's own IR35 laws.

Department for Work and Pensions used HMRC's own online checker tool to gauge contractors' status, but still came up with the wrong answers.

With revelations about the use of umbrella companies and the advent of IR35, companies need to urgently examine their supply chains.

Two amendments have been tabled the Finance Bill currently passing through parliament to ‘curb or kill’ umbrella companies.

The chief executive of The Pensions Regulator has said it is working with Uber to set up a workplace pension.

Food delivery and courier companies in Spain now three months to employ drivers as staff under a landmark new law.

HMRC has accused football and TV star Gary Lineker of having a £4.9m tax liability and of being a ‘disguised employee’ under IR35.

Changes to the off-payroll working rules – known as IR35 – take effect in the private sector today.

An annual update on the changes to employment law that are happening in April 2021 – IR35, national living wage, statutory pay rates...

New study on riders' pay, strike action, investor criticism and Rashford talks mark bumpy run-up to Deliveroo flotation.

A survey finds 38% of mid-sized organisations are not prepared for the changes to off-payroll working rules, which come in on 6 April 2021.

Organisations could see the preparation they have had to make for IR35 as a catalyst for rethinking where skills are sourced.

Platform workers to be given employee status while unions will be given the right to access algorithms used by gig firms.