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With steadily increasing numbers of employers struggling to recruit the talent they need to grow their businesses, Umbrella Company Employees and other independent professionals in the UK’s [...]

The TUC’s response to the latest employment figures, which show a huge increase in self-employment since mid-2010, has triggered a row with the professional contracting and freelancing trade [...]

Contractors are divided between optimists, pessimists and stoics vis-à-vis business prospects for 2012, according to a recent PCG poll amongst its members. 23% of respondents appeared quite [...]

Although news has been circulating over the last couple of weeks that a number of big financial institutions have cut their pay rates for contractors in the IT skills market, the ranks of highly [...]

PAYE umbrella contractors seeking security-cleared Government roles are unfairly disadvantaged by a major market failure in recruitment procedures, a new study has declared. The research was [...]