Important Holiday Pay Development
The Court of Appeal has ruled that a worker can only lose the right to take paid leave within the holiday year when: The employer can show it specifically and transparently gave the worker the opportunity to take paid annual leave; The employer encouraged the worker to take paid annual leave; The employer informed the […]
New Legal Duty To Provide Temporary Workers With PPE
The Health & Safety Executive has announced plans to update legislation so that workers (as well as employees) will be entitled to have PPE provided by their employer. This means that thousands of temporary and contract workers will benefit by a new legal requirement to have personal protective equipment provided for them. The announcement comes […]
Temporary Workers Are Critical To The Economy!
Latest data shows that temporary and contract workers played a critical role in UK’s economy during the pandemic, with 980,000 temporary workers on assignment every day during 2020. Despite this being the height of the pandemic when so much was turbulent and unpredictable, the use of temporary workers was approximately the same as for 2019. […]
029 Holiday Entitlement For Furloughed Temporary / Agency Workers
This podcast builds on the earlier podcast done with Paul Chamberlain of JMW Solicitors looking at holiday for agency workers. Today we are joined by Lewina Farrell, a specialist legal advisor to the recruitment sector, to specifically look at the issue of whether agency workers were entitled to holiday pay whilst on furlough. We cover […]
017 Reasons For Temps & Agency Workers To Feel Positive
In this episode Julia discusses why she is feeling positive about 2021, and why you should too! Things are definitely looking up as there is certainly increasing demand in the jobs market, particularly for temporary and agency workers in the UK. Listen to the episode to find out the latest job market stats, which sectors […]
005: What is an “umbrella” and how do I know it is compliant?
Many recruitment agencies require their temporary and contract workers to be paid via an umbrella firm, but what actually is “umbrella”? We talk to Rob Crossland who founded one of the UK’s first ever umbrella companies, which continues to be one of the largest and most successful umbrellas in the UK today. Rob used to […]
What is mini-umbrella?
Mini-umbrella is an arrangement where a seemingly compliant umbrella employs it’s workers through lots of small companies (or mini-umbrellas) in order to receive the employment allowance and/or access the flat rate VAT scheme. HMRC view this type of employment intermediary model as an organised crime threat to the UK Exchequer because it abuses two incentive […]