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The Work and Pensions Committee has urged the Government to close loopholes that permit companies in the gig economy to engage in “bogus”’ self-employment. The Committee had been assessing modern [...]

The Taylor Review into modern employment practices has now heard from a prominent academic who has studied contracting and self-employment extensively. His advice: steer clear of a broad [...]

Technological platform-based companies in the gig economy are bulldozing low-paid workers into self-employment and evading employment case law, a prominent expert on professional contracting has [...]

Umbrella Company trade association the Freelancer and Contractor Services Association (FCSA) has firmly endorsed the value of the UK’s professional contracting workforce following remarks made by [...]

A new report from the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has claimed that self-employed people enjoy an unfair tax advantage over those in traditional employment. Describing the differences in [...]