Employment status: Trouble in the pipeline for employers post Pimlico Plumbers

Sean Nesbitt and Rachel Farr consider the lessons for businesses from the Supreme Court’s ruling in Pimlico Plumbers ‘Nothing short of an unrestricted right to substitution will defeat worker status.’ In the latest, and most authoritative, case on employment status, the Supreme Court has held that a supposedly self-employed plumber was in fact a worker. …
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Employment Status: Review of workers’ rights

Oliver Spratt discusses a government review aimed at clarifying and potentially strengthening workers’ rights ‘If the proposed extension of rights and new guidance are put in place, this would be largely beneficial to both employers and employees.’ As Peter Clark J commented in the Employment Appeal Tribunal earlier this summer in Windle v Secretary of …
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