Late shift cancellation used to be frustrating. Now, thanks to changes to statutory late notice cancellation compensation, it’s potentially expensive. Under changes linked to the Employment Rights Act (ERA), agencies may be required to compensate workers where temporary assignments or shifts are cancelled or curtailed at short notice. The problem? In most cases, it isn’t […]
Not because the rules suddenly changed overnight. But because multiple reforms are landing at once, and together, they are exposing weaknesses in recruitment contracts, supply chains and commercial assumptions that have been quietly tolerated for years. If you look at each reform in isolation, it may feel manageable. Taken together, 2026 represents the most significant […]
HMRC has warned of new fraudulent models emerging in the market, claiming to reduce employment costs through ‘tax credits’ offset through acquired third-party businesses. Disguised as payroll providers, intermediaries, umbrella solutions, or back-office providers, they assert to use tax credits to offset employment taxes such as PAYE and National Insurance by operating the payroll thereby, […]
The industry’s been rightly focused on the joint and several liability risks under Chapter 11 of the Finance Bill, but there’s another serious consequence baked into this legislation, and it’s flying under the radar. We’re talking about TUPE transfers. At first glance, it may not look like much. But for agencies who’ve historically used umbrella […]
The Employment Rights Bill will soon pass into law, soon followed by regulation of the umbrella sector, impacting the current umbrella model as we know it.
The government has now published its plans for applying proposed zero hours rules to agency workers.
The government has now published its plans for applying proposed zero hours rules to agency workers.
In a recent case a first tier Employment Tribunal decided that a social worker was a worker and that the party responsible for paying the worker was the employment business supplying her to a client. The decision is surprising because the supply contract was with the worker’s personal service company (PSC), and has given rise to the claim in some quarters that it is the harbinger of employment rights for contractors working inside IR35.
Recent news reports agency workers and gig economy participants are being charged fees to receive their pay quickly. However, is this practice legal?
HMRC has launched an umbrella pay calculator, a new free online tool for workers and businesses to check umbrella take-home pay and deductions.
