The Treasury has announced that it will not abolish Class 2 national insurance contributions (NICs), a policy the Conservative party...
Freelance workers
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Global research into the use of contingent workers – those professionals engaged in the so-called gig economy – shows that...
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Changes to self-employment tax rules have “seriously damaged” the NHS and the public sector, according to research by the Association...
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A High Court judge today granted permission for Deliveroo couriers to challenge a previous ruling that they could not be...
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Two-thirds of employers back the introduction of a right for agency workers and zero-hours contract workers to request a stable...
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The view that full-time employment is in retreat and will be subsumed by the gig economy is not borne out...
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Parcel delivery company DPD is to give self-employed drivers access to benefits such as paid annual leave, sick pay and...
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The Supreme Court hears a key gig economy case today as Pimlico Plumbers challenges last year’s Court of Appeal decision...
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HMRC collected £819m in additional tax through payroll investigations last year, as it continued to crack down on organisations that...
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The Government has vowed to enforce workers’ rights from their first day in a job, in response to the recommendations...
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A courier company that delivers parcels for Amazon has settled a dispute with drivers that the GMB union claimed were...
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Two fifths of women and a fifth of men in the UK say they have experienced unwanted sexual behaviour at...
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Courier company Hermes has sought to distance itself from the criticism surrounding gig economy employers by claiming its use of...
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Uber’s application to “leapfrog” an appeal to the Supreme Court has been refused.
Gig economy cases
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Deliveroo riders are not workers and are self-employed, according to a decision yesterday by the Central Arbitration Committee.
This means...