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Category Archives: Employment status
My Pimlico Plumbers Prediction (updated)
UPDATE: so the decision is out and it seems to be mainly Option 1 (see below). Lord Wilson’s decision does, I think, move the law on a bit when it comes to the right to send a substitute. When looking … Continue reading
Posted in Employment status, Taylor Report, Uncategorized
Tagged gig economy, Lady Hale, Pimlico Plumbers, substitution clauses, supreme court
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Government responds to the Taylor Review
I imagine that Matthew Taylor is pleased with the response the Government has given to his “Good Work’ review of Modern Employment Practices. A (mainly) positive response to all but one of his recommendations (the Government seem determined not to … Continue reading
How Uber could win in the Employment Appeal Tribunal
I spent yesterday sitting in the public gallery of the Employment Appeal Tribunal (if you can call five rows of seats the back of a big room a ‘gallery’) listening to Dinah Rose QC argue that the Employment Tribunal was … Continue reading
Posted in Employment status, Uncategorized
Tagged Employment Appeal Tribunal, uber, workers
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What about the dependent contractors?
There is much to mull over in the Taylor ‘Good Work’ Review. It proposes some significant changes to employment law that deserve serious consideration. I set out a whole list of them here. But a lot of attention is being … Continue reading
Posted in Employment status, Taylor Report, Uncategorized
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The Taylor Review – the good, the bad and and the cosmetic
It’s easy to pick holes in any substantial piece of work – which is great news for people like me. There is, therefore, plenty in the Taylor Review ‘Good Work’ Report (as it now seems to be called) that I … Continue reading
Employment Status – in praise of fuzziness
As we await the publication of the Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices, one issue that is being discussed is whether the definitions of employee and worker need to be simplified and/or clarified. There is a general feeling that that … Continue reading
Pimlico Plumbers and the ‘self employed’ worker
Employment status is clearly going to be this year’s hottest employment law issue. Just last week the Government published its Employment Status Review. It is dated December 2015 so it has been sitting on someone’s desk for over a year. … Continue reading
Why Uber lost in the Employment Tribunal
Uber drivers are not employees and don’t let anyone tell you different. On the other hand, in Aslam & others v Uber BV and others the Tribunal did hold that they were ‘workers’. Being a worker is different from being an employee. … Continue reading
Posted in Employment status, Uncategorized
Tagged drivers, employees, gig economy, uber, workers
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Theresa May is Reviewing the Situation
This week sees the Conservative Party Conference and it is pretty clear that part of the PM’s strategy is to position the Tories as the natural home of those who care about fairness and social justice but think that Jeremy … Continue reading
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