Does the recent ET decision in Thompson v Paymaster (October 2013) doom the umbrella model?
The decision of an Employment Tribunal on 4th October 2013 meant that 6 individuals supplied as agency workers through the umbrella provider Paymaster were neither employees nor workers of Paymaster despite being signed up on written employment contracts, writes Adrian Marlowe of the recruitment and employment law specialist Lawspeed. Paymaster had gone into receivership leaving […]