Sky Sports pundit Stuart Barnes was a "disguised employee" and should have been classed as working inside of IR35 legislation, a tribunal has ruled, ordering him to pay £700,000 to HMRC.

Leaders of the Cambridge Shakespeare Festival wrongly classified two actors as volunteers when they should have been classified as workers, the BBC reported on 15 August.

The number of people in self-employment has fallen sharply since the pandemic, according to data from the Office of National Statistics (ONS).

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.