What about those people whose services you may use but who are not your employees?
Ensure that you are clear about the distinctions between these groups of workers, and that
you don't treat them as employees - thus unwittingly giving them employment rights.
Employment status
Agency workers
Work experience and unpaid placements
Working with clients, contractors and other third parties
Working with children and vulnerable adults
Criminal records and CRB checks
Volunteers
Non-employee documents
What's new?
As from 6 April 2008, workers have the right to withdraw from
services provided by an agency, such as accommodation and transport, without
suffering any disadvantages. See our legal overview on agency workers.
The Court of Appeal has ruled that agency workers engaged for a period of less
than three months are not eligible to claim statutory sick pay (SSP).
Short-term agency workers WILL be entitled to SSP if in a single contract they work
longer than the original period specified and the total period actually worked exceeds
three months, or if the contract is extended so that it runs for more than three months,
from the time at which the extension is agreed. The HMRC has confirmed that this
loophole will be closed so that agency workers on short-term contracts of less than
three months WILL become eligible to receive SSP, but no date has been set for this as yet.
We've added a new non executive directors services agreement to
our template agreements.
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