Autumn Budget – employment provisions
The Chancellor has spoken and presented his first Autumn Budget.
Employment Status
Managing a flexible workforce
With Christmas on the way (a busy time of year in many sectors – including hospitality) Big Hospitality has published […]
Uber loses appeal on worker status
In the continuing worker status saga, Uber's recent appeal against the Tribunal ruling that its drivers are workers, rather than self-employed individuals, has been dismissed by the EAT.
Worker status
Following last years Employment Tribunal decision that Uber drivers were workers rather than self-employed, Uber's appeal hearing at the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) concluded today.
People Management article
As you may have seen, People Management recently published an article on some of the big developments in employment law in 2017, particularly Brexit and the Taylor review. In the lead up to triggering Article 50, the government maintained that there would not be any change to workers' rights following Brexit, so it would be brave to take away key protections, many of which derive from UK law anyway. Other commentators suggested there may be reforms to TUPE, although agreed that it will stay, but perhaps in a slightly amended form. As for a new visa regime for workers, the outcome is unclear. The uncertainty has already caused many workers to leave at a time where we are beginning to see a shortage of labour. This has not been helped by the recent leaked Home Office post-Brexit Immigration Policy which has confirmed the fears of employers with respect to the future of EU workers in the UK.
Self-employed contractors and the gig economy – keep watching this space!
Pimlico Plumbers has now been granted permission to appeal to the Supreme Court. The decision reached by the Supreme Court will be significant as the highest authority on the employment status of purportedly self-employed contractors. It is likely to have implications for the so-called "gig economy".
Another triumph for cyclists
Following in the tracks of CitySprint, Deliveroo and Excel, Addison Lee is the latest company to wrongly classify its workforce.
Sisters doing it for themselves?
The world of work is changing. According to a combined study by Oxford Ecomonics and the online retailer notonthehighstreet.com, female […]
Speaking Deliveroo: whatever next?
Deliveroo has set out words and phrases that managers should use to describe its riders and their working practices in […]
Matthew Taylor's report on the gig economy – emergent themes
Matthew Taylor, former head of Blair’s Number 10 Policy Unit, is due to publish a report on the gig economy […]
A growing gig economy
In Boxer v. Excel Group Services Ltd ET/3200365/2016, Mr Boxer brought a successful claim against Excel Group Services Ltd (Excel) […]
Worker status – Pimlico Plumbers case
Pimlico Plumbers engaged Mr Smith as a plumber for around five and a half years. Four months after he suffered […]