In an article published in Personnel Today on 4th September the HR Manager of a large hirer of agency workers indicated that once the Directive is in place they intend to hire temps direct from their own internal bank of temp workers. They made it clear that this was not an off the cuff observation but […]
Some of you may have read an article from Recruiter.co.uk sent under its email alert scheme headed “Agency workers directive implementation delayed until 2010”, which stated that Gordon Brown has announced that the Directive will be included in the “next parliamentary session”, and therefore cannot be implemented until April 2010. Kevin Greene of the REC […]
The case of a limited company contractor who has been able to successfully assert that he was an employee of his client has recently been raising eyebrows across the industry. In Asltrom v Tilson, Mr Tilson, who operated through his own limited company which was acting as a subcontractor, whose principal was being supplied to […]
From 1st October 2009, the national minimum wage will increase from £5.73 to £5.80 per hour. A recruiter or umbrella company whose rates fall below such levels will be advised to address these matters with clients, unless there is already clear provision within contracts for an increase in rates to account for such costs. Payment […]
The position regarding holiday pay for those on long term sick leave has recently been clarified by the European courts. The UK courts had suggested that workers on long terms sick leave should not accrue holiday entitlement, on the basis that they are already on leave. However this has been overruled by the European Court […]
As has been seen in the recent case involving the massive fines imposed on a consortium of recruitment businesses called ” the Construction Industry Forum”, the penalties for engaging in anti competitive behaviour can be severe . Apart from fines, they can extend in certain circumstances to the disqualification of directors. So what effect could this have on your business? Most of […]
HMRC has last week announced a consultation on the self employed status of construction workers. It is common within the construction industry for workers to operate via the CIS scheme, which allows for self employed workers to have certain level of tax deducted at source, which depending upon their registration status with HMRC can be […]
After weeks of hard work with the Institute of Directors (IOD) the message that we have been attempting to publish that the government intends to massively gold plate the Agency Workers Directive has finally hit the national press. In an article on 23rd July the FT reported on concerns that the government intends to go […]
The Swine flu pandemic is currently major headline news and having an increasing impact upon the population, there has been a natural increase in the levels of sickness absence and concern. However, the pandemic is leaving both employers and recruiters with a number of questions, for example are you obliged to pay a worker during […]
After a huge battle with recruiters in the middle of this decade the government finally settled on a formula for limiting temp to perm, temp to temp and temp to third party fees (“transfer fees”). You will all no doubt be aware that the rules are set out in Regulation 10 of the Conduct of […]
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