Many employers need mobile workers to carry out their business tasks, for example to sell their products and provide installation, repair and delivery services.
The management of a mobile workforce, for example a remote sales team, creates a numbers of challenges for employers around health and safety, communication and control, and working time.
As seen in the Tyco case, the working time status of travelling time for workers with no usual place of work has been particularly controversial.
About a quarter of UK employers (24%) said they would leave their job if they felt their privacy was being invaded.
The rewards of establishing a functioning hybrid model of working are many, says EY, but businesses should be under no illusion about the challenges they face.
Finding out that an employee has secretly been working from another country isn’t a new problem, but it has become...
Uber has won the right to continue operating in London because of its safety improvements.
Four years in the making – final decision on the employment status of Uber drivers will have huge ramifications for the gig economy.
Employers looking to adopt a remote-first working environment must ensure staff are empowered to take ownership of their careers and...
The number of remote working jobs available has doubled in the past four years, according to job board CV-Library.
Its...
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Workers posted to another EU country will be entitled to the same rate of pay and working conditions as their...
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Travel time and on-call time are treated differently for the purposes of the national minimum wage and the working time...
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