Key points
- The government states that no changes are needed to worker statuses.
- It considers in most cases the determination of a worker’s tax status is simple to determine.
- Pointers on when the national minimum wage applies to gig workers.
- Several rulings in the courts that those engaged on a self-employed basis do have workers’ rights.
It may have escaped the attention of many advisers but on 26 July the Department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy issued a number of documents relating to the issue of status of workers and the national minimum wage (tinyurl.com/beisempstatjul). These documents include several matters of interest to professionals working in this area of tax.
Response to employment status consultation
At last after more than four years of waiting we have a response from the government after its 2018 consultation on the status of workers. This process started...