Employment Status: Short-term contracts and Equality Act protection

Trowers & Hamlins LLP | Employment Law Journal | September 2016 #173
The Court of Appeal has considered whether two court interpreters could bring discrimination claims despite ostensibly being self-employed. Helen Cookson and Anna Scott report ‘A self-employed individual will be protected under the EqA only if their contract puts them under an obligation to do the work personally.’ In a recent decision, the Court of Appeal …

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Employment Status: Keeping it casual

Howard Kennedy | Employment Law Journal | October 2012 #134
Susie Al-Qassab considers the consequences of three recent decisions in the EAT on the mutuality of obligation test The fact that the claimants worked rostered hours to which they could object if they posed them a problem, did not preclude mutuality of obligation. To establish employee status and enjoy the rights and protections only available …

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Employment Status: Was lap dancer an employee?

Bindmans LLP | Employment Law Journal | July/August 2012 #132
Shah Qureshi and Emma Webster analyse a recent ruling that will make it easier for workers in the entertainment and service sectors to claim that they have employment rights ‘The case concerned a lap dancer at Stringfellows and possibly led to a greater examination of the workings of this particular industry than the tribunal had …

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