A Sunday Telegraph article of 25 March 2012 entitled ‘Agencies make millions from £120-an-hour doctors’ omitted several significant points. Given the important role that recruitment companies, including ‘temp agencies’, play in the economic recovery and their particularly crucial role supporting the NHS, the ARC believes that it would be useful to outline some issues that demonstrate the […]
Substitution clauses were once regarded by some as a hefty indicator of genuine self-employment in IR35 and employment status case law, yet their credibility has diminished significantly in recent years – as reported in January, they have even been described in court as “basically irrelevant window-dressing”. However a truly genuine substitution clause is still effective […]
An announcement from the Department of BIS has confirmed that the adult National Minimum Wage (NMW) rate will increase by 11p from £6.08 to £6.19 an hour on 1st October 2012. This follows the recommendations of the independent Low Pay Commission for this year’s NMW rates. The Government has also confirmed that the minimum wage […]
