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Morrisons Faces £1bn Equal Pay Claims
Supermarket chain Morrisons is facing equal pay claims worth over £1bn for female shop floor staff who believe they were paid less than men working in distribution centres. Law firm Leigh Day said that Morrisons has around 80,000 store staff eligible to claim, which...
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Conservatives Need to Regain Trust of the Self-Employed Individuals
The Conservative Government has repeatedly put the message across that it wants to be seen as a champion of small businesses in the UK. And this is important for the prosperity of the country as small businesses contribute billions of dollar to the economy. By the...
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IPSE Advises the Government to Get Rid of IR35
HM Revenues and Customs (HMRC)'s IR35 reform has garnered a lot of criticisms. The Association of Independent Professionals and the Self Employed (IPSE) has advised the government to support the contractors and avoid extending the off-payroll working rules to the...
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Mel Stride, The Financial Secretary, Claims Accuracy of the CEST Tool Despite Criticisms
Financial Secretary Mel Stride had responded to criticisms relating to the Check and Employment Status for Tax (CEST) tool. The response was given in the House of Commons last week. The message was not unlike the one is given by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) that...
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BBC Presenter Christa Ackroyd Files an Appeal
BBC presenter Christa Ackroyd has filed an appeal against the IR35 verdict. On September 2017, the tribunal had given the verdict that her work was inside the IR35 rule. Ms.Ackroyd had worked as a BBC presenter for the regional TV news programmes BBC Look North and...
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HMRC Needs to Address Employment Rights of Off-Payroll Workers
HM Revenue and Customers (HMRC) should address rights of contracting professionals deemed inside IR35 before further reform in the off-payroll working rules. This has been recommended by the leading tax advisory firm, Qdos Contractor. According to Kate Cox, a...
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Labour Would Give ‘Gig Economy’ Workers Full Employment Rights
Labour will promise to ‘restore the balance’ of power in the workplace in a major shake-up of workers’ rights. John McDonnell said a Labour government would give gig economy workers more rights, including sick pay and parental leave. The shadow chancellor said the...
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HMRC Faces Another Humiliating Loss Regarding MoO and Control
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has suffered another blow relating to its off-payroll working rules. In a recent tribunal case, the presiding judge Ms. Sarah Falk had given the verdict that the professional football referees were not employees but contracting...
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HMRC Opens 27 New Serious Tax Evasion Cases
27 cases involving the UK’s biggest businesses (top 2,0000 companies) were referred for investigation for possible ‘serious’ tax evasion by HMRC in the last year, says Pinsent Masons, the international law firm. The law firm says that if the numbers, based on a...
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National Insurance Tax Cut Scrapped for 3M Self-Employed Workers
A planned tax cut for millions of self-employed workers has been scrapped by Chancellor Philip Hammond. The Treasury revealed on Thursday it will no longer abolish Class 2 National Insurance contributions (NICs). Mr Hammond's predecessor George Osborne had announced...
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Zero Hour Workers Entitled to Statutory Employment Rights
Zero-hour workers are not guaranteed fixed hours of work nor are they obliged to accept a particular number of hours. Unless specifically written in the contract, businesses cannot suspend a zero-hour employee for disciplinary reasons without suspension pay. In...
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Government Criticized by the IPSE for Opting out of Pension Dashboard Project
The UK Government has recently announced that it would no longer lead the implementation of the "pension dashboard" project. According to Esther McVey, the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, the private sector would take the lead role in the rollout of the...
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