A ragbag approach to skills shortages and hard-to-shift government bias over the intentions of migrants is preventing employers making the most of potential talent, finds Peter Crush.

Mote Cricket Club is now listed alongside Uber and Pimlico Plumbers as an organisation hauled through the tribunals by individuals asserting that they were employees or workers, not contractors.

Work has become more secure over the past decade despite the impact of the pandemic.

We learned from the Department for Transport’s (DfT) latest annual accounts that Network Rail is hiring 79% of contractors on an outside IR35 basis.

The Uber decision has been hailed as a win for workers’ rights, but it won’t all be positive.  

A landmark judgment in the Supreme Court in February over Uber drivers’ employment status has far reaching consequences for employers.

The Supreme Court handed down its long-anticipated judgment in the case of Uber BV and others v Aslam and others on 19 February.

Uber drivers in the UK will now be entitled to the national minimum wage, holiday pay and rest breaks after being officially classed as workers rather than self-employed by the Supreme Court.

Deliveroo riders are not entitled to collective bargaining under the European Convention on Human Rights, the High Court has ruled