Yes, employers’ liability insurance is a legal requirement in the UK. As soon as you hire your first employee, you must have ...

None of us ever appears quite as we hope, particularly if you miss this Wednesday’s webinar and get checked out via ‘LinkedIn Recruiter.’ ...

If PAYE/NICs to the taxman fall short under both Chapters 11 and 7, the top agency or MSP is on the hook. And if there’s no agency or no umbrella, the end-client is on the hook.

Integrating flexible talent with AI expertise, ahead of merging internal and external teams, is now considered the key to building a high-performance workforce.

HMRC’s ‘retrospective due diligence’ -- revisiting MSC determinations mid-appeal to request the actual income data -- is unprecedented. So too will be the FTT’s decision in just six months.

The UK’s new SBC Emma Jones exclusively invites ContractorUK readers to respond to ‘Late Payments: tackling poor payment practices.’ ...

An imagining of an umbrella contractor’s life ‘on the ground’ after April 2026, with a focus on the practical effects of the main principles of Joint & Several Liability.

Nine judges have 13 weeks to whittle down 118 finalists to 30 winners -- only those who ‘truly go above and beyond’ for contractors.

The ‘toughest crackdown on late payments to SMEs in a generation’ could potentially ‘bring super slow payers up to speed,’ or it might merely be 'tinkering around the edges.’ ...

Agencies and end-clients appear to be hogging the JSL liability limelight. But ‘relevant party’ means there’s room for one more.

Policy-makers’ focus on 665,000 Personal Service Companies must be sharpened to untangle them from the web that successive governments have ensnared them in.

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