EqA: Employees and others covered by the employment provisions Summary EqA protection extends beyond ‘employees’ to cover many individuals who are self-employed, including OH providers. The courts have s...
Might someone be a ‘worker’ even with an unfettered right of substitution? The Court of Appeal in Pimlico Plumbers said a genuine unfettered right to substitute someone else to do the work is inconsistent with being...
Workers Summary ‘Workers’ are an intermediate type of employment status between ‘employees’ and ‘genuinely self-employed, having some employment rig...
Employment contract or contract for services? Summary It can be important whether there is an ‘employment contract’, ie whether the person is an ‘employee’. In particular, only an employ...
Rights of workers and employees: introduction This page outlines firstly the three basic types of employment status, ‘employee’, ‘worker’ or ‘genuinely self-employed’. It then looks at t...
Uber drivers are protected as ‘workers’ The Supreme Court has issued a far-reaching decision on how to determine whether an individual is protected by employment legislation. The q...
EU law still relevant at the last hour In a recent case in the High Court the trade union that represents workers in the ‘gig economy’, the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Bri...
Out-of-hours GP held to be ‘worker’ An out-of-hours GP was not obliged to accept work, but was held to be a ‘worker’ so that she could claim for holiday pay and und...
Employment status We have updated our pages on who is a ‘worker’, including some recent cases on the gig economy. ‘Workers’ are an intermediate ty...
The gig economy Diana Kloss considers those who are neither ‘employees’ nor genuinely self-employed. What have court cases been saying, and would the propos...
