Category: United Kingdom
English Court of Appeal Reaffirms Limits of Vicarious Liability for Actions of Independent Contractors
From JDSupra, Ian Ford and Richard McKeown discuss a recent case in England in which the Court…
The Classification Conundrum: Four Key Trends on Regulating Platform Work
From JDSupra, Ius Laboris discusses trends for addressing worker classification of digital platform workers in countries around…
Global guide: Independent contractors, potential misclassification issues, and labor implications
From JDSupra, Jo Broadbent, Dr. Justus Frank, Maître en droit, LL.M., Mary Carmen Fuertes Abascal, Lena Gerretsen,…
United Kingdom: The Arbitration Act 2025 Finally Becomes Law
From JDSupra, Dorothy Murray and Alexis Namdar discuss the adoption of the Arbitration Act 2025 in the…
Employment Status – A View From Both Sides of the Pond
From JDSupra, Akshay Chauhan, Alex Fisher, and Robert Hale discuss classifying workers in the United States and…
Supreme Court of the United Kingdom Says Independent Contractors have the Power of Substitution
From JDSupra, Roger James discusses a recent case in which the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom…
Nike could be fined over $530m for misclassifying thousands of workers
From the Guardian, Dominic Rushe reports that Nike received an analysis that suggests that Nike may have…
IR35 reform U-turn
From JDSupra, Peter Summerfield, David von Hagen, and Ellie Serridge report that the announced reforms to IR35…
UK Independent Contractor Misclassification Issues
From JDSupra, Nick Elwell-Sutton provides an excellent overview of the complexity of the categorization of workers in…
U.K.: Worker Status Does Not Depend on a Requirement for a Minimum Amount of Work
From JDSupra, Sinead Cuthill, Alex Denny, and Emma Vennesson discuss a recent case in which a worker…
UK – Important Court of Appeal Decision on Historic Holiday Pay Claims
From JDSupra, Marie Hoolihan and Jules Quinn discuss a recent case in the United Kingdom in which…
UK – Status of Workers Bill passes from the Lords to the Commons
The Institute of Employment Rights (IER) reported that Andy McDonald MP introduced the Status of Workers Bill…
