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Boris Johnson’s announcement today that health and social care reform will be funded through a 1.25 percentage point increase in...

Organisations in Scotland that do not offer fair pay and conditions should face ‘fair work levies’, according to the IPPR.

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.

The government should ban the use of umbrella companies to employ workers and make organisations liable for upholding workers' rights, the TUC has said.

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

The government should incentivise job sharing by cutting employers’ national insurance contributions for employees in such roles, MPs and campaigners...

IR35 reforms in the private sector have posed significant challenges for organisations that want to use contractors for short-term project work.

The Recruitment and Employment Confederation has revealed a four-point plan to tackle poor practice by umbrella companies.

MPs vote against amendments to the Finance Bill that would have clamped down on the misuse of umbrella companies.

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.

Regulation of umbrella companies would prevent workers from losing out on rights such as holiday pay, government told.

About 48,000 ‘mini umbrella’ companies have been created in the past five years in a bid to reduce recruitment agencies’ tax and national insurance liabilities.

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