Is a worker an Employee or Self-Employed ?
The difference between being an employee or self-employed will affect that person's
employment rights.
In deciding this question the law says that the following has to be looked
at:
a) Does the employer control what work is done ?
b) Does the employer control where, when and how the work is done ?
c) Does the employer provide holiday and sickness pay ?
d) Is the employer taking the financial risk ?
e) Is the employer responsible for paying Tax & National Insurance
Contributions ?
If the answers to the above are yes then that person is likely to be employed,
rather than self-employed, no matter what the employment contract says.
What information must an Employer give to an Employee when they start ?
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