What do taxi drivers, plumbers and bike couriers have in common?

Angela Gorton is an employment director at Lupton Fawcett.

What do taxi drivers, plumbers and bike couriers have in common? According to recent legal decisions, all involved the businesses they worked for labelling them as self-employed whilst the reality of the situation indicated they were workers for the purposes of employment legislation.

The result - costly claims for the business that they never envisaged they would be liable for.

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