Employment Status: New rights for partners

CMS | Employment Law Journal | July/August 2014 #152
A recent Supreme Court ruling has finally laid to rest the difficult issue of whether an LLP member is a worker, explains Sarah Ozanne ‘The concept of “worker” under the ERA includes both employees, being those employed under a contract of employment, and a sub-category of individual who personally undertakes to provide work for another …

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Non-Employment Arrangements: What’s the status?

Howard Kennedy | Employment Law Journal | October 2013 #144
Susie Al-Qassab analyses recent case law and other developments affecting businesses that have significant numbers of non-employees in their workforce ‘We are seeing a backlash against the cynical and widespread shoehorning of employees into non-employment arrangements in order to avoid rights, protections and cost.’ This article is a round up of recent decisions and developments …

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Employment Status: Members and partners are left whistling

Barlow Robbins LLP | Employment Law Journal | November 2012 #135
The Court of Appeal has held that LLP members lose employment rights but an independent contractor surgeon is ‘a worker’, reports David Ludlow A worker is ‘to some extent at least subordinate to the employer’ whereas ‘the partnership concept is the antithesis of subordination’. Employment lawyers and tribunals regularly deal with cases in which the …

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