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Whilst there recently have been a number of complaints about HMRC’s proposed reporting obligations under the new Agencies Tax legislation, the Association of Recruitment Consultancies (ARC) believes the better target for these complaints would be the inherent unfairness within the legislation itself. This unfairness is a subject that ARC has addressed in a campaign launched […]

The outcome of the case Mploy Group Ltd v Denso Manufacturing UK Ltd reminds employment businesses of the importance of having strong terms in place which are compliant with key legislative requirements and that cover off commercial interests. Mploy Group Ltd “MGL” an employment business, had supplied workers to Denso Manufacturing UK Ltd “DMUK”.  DMUK […]

As expected the government plans to proceed with the new regulation to ensure that employment agencies and businesses should have to advertise jobs locally if they also intend to advertise for foreign workers to work in UK jobs. The new requirement, which the government hopes to bring into force by the end of this year, […]

The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has published its judgment in three cases as to whether holiday pay need take into account non-guaranteed or voluntary overtime. The EAT ruled that it should. Although the ruling is likely to be appealed, it paves the way for multiple claims for unpaid holiday pay, with government estimates that this could […]

Responding to news that the HMRC ‘Business Entity Tests’ for the tax rules known as IR35 are to be scrapped, Theresa Mimnagh, of the compliance and recruitment law specialist Lawspeed, said “the test was always surprising as it looked at the contractor’s business rather than the relationship with the hirer, and IR35 is a tax […]

Attendeesin a packed room at the Recruitment EXPO in Birmingham gave a 100% yes inresponse to the perennial question, “Are standards important to the recruitmentindustry?”. Tothose outside the industry, it may come as a surprise, especially when thegovernment is set on reducing the regulation of agencies, with furtherannouncements expected this month. Ina £25bn per annum […]

An employment tribunal has awarded an agency worker in excess of £10,000 for a breach of equal pay rights (R.5 & R.6 Agency Workers Regulations 2010), namely to be paid what she would have received had she been recruited directly by the hirer upon completion of the requisite 12 week qualifying period. It concerned a […]

  Immigration is back in the headlines and closely linked to this is the right to work in the UK. To identify people genuinely entitled to work here from those that may not be, this year in May and July the government issued a raft of guidance notes and codes on the steps that need […]

Adrian Marlowe, MD Lawspeed, will be speaking at a forthcoming workshop hosted by The Association of Recruitment Consultancies (ARC) along side Tim Young, Business Advisory Partner at Baker Tilly and Steven Raize, Corporate Partner at DAC Beachcroft LLP.   Suitable for anyone looking to raise funds or planning to exit their recruitment company, this is an […]

Based on the Office of Tax Simplification’s (OTS) report in January, the government has launched a review into the rules underlying the taxation of travel and subsistence expenses. They believe that the current rules do not reflect the changes in working practices and the way that the workforce operates, including the growth of the temporary […]

The Department of BIS has announced a proposal for a new regulation to prevent recruiters from advertising vacancies within the EEA unless they have also been advertised in English in Great Britain. The new regulation would be included within the revised Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003 (“Conduct Regs”) and would not […]

A recent tax tribunal case has shed some light on how the control test in the new ‘false self-employment’ legislation, which applies from April 2014, may be interpreted by the courts. This legislation amended is known as ‘the agencies tax legislation’. The issue concerned security guards who were supplied by a business to guard construction […]

Vince Cable has today announced proposals to bring into law a ban on exclusivity clauses within zero hours arrangements. The target being employers who engage a person on a zero hours contract with no guarantee of work, yet also require workers to be available by restricting individuals from taking up other roles whilst employed. The […]

Don’t fancy working Mondays anymore? Want to work at home, work compact hours or change shift patterns? From 30th June 2014, the right of an employee to request flexible working will be extended. Prior to this date, the right existed only for parents and carers and was largely used to accommodate childcare arrangements. However, it […]