A lawyer’s alert to ContractorUK that the Employment Rights Bill (ERB) has been overloaded is being echoed by an umbrella company accreditation body. Ahead of its publication on Monday, L-Day, Roger ...

Soulless dross that Artificial Intelligence like ChatGPT is churning out is the CV market’s biggest problem, not CVs themselves.

All supply chain parties are bracing themselves for Finance Bill 2026, the ERB, and JSL legislation for umbrella companies.

With dividends’ future uncertain, it’s probably now a case of ‘every little helps,’ and that includes making your spouse a shareholder.

Ahead of test cases in February 2026, Boox and Churchill Knight contractors have been selected for a pilot HMRC is already having to quietly apologise about.

Named and shamed’ avoidance schemes are taking keywords associated with contracting for their names. Or just potentially trading off someone else’s.

How contractor recruitment agencies appear to be caught between two competing pieces of legislation, and what navigating the push-pull needs to involve.

Being left out-of-pocket for an extensive period thwarts usually sensible debt recovery options, even if LinkedIn users say otherwise.

Aside to much poorer payment terms, public sector contractors under the Alexander Mann Solutions (AMS) Framework are also now carrying a significant increase in commercial-business risk, writes an ...

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He’s ‘not self-employed’ therefore he must be ‘a worker,’ said the Court of Appeal in the recent Pimlico Plumbers case., writes Adrian Marlowe, managing director of Lawspeed. In reaching this decision ...