Tag: recruitment legal advice
Answers to some of your questions about the changes to the IR35 off-payroll rules
We’ve put together a list of “the little things” that everybody needs to know regarding the changes to the IR35 off-payroll rules: Under the off-payroll rules a recruitment business is the “fee payer” as it is the party immediately above the contractor’s PSC which is the “intermediary”. The contractor is the “worker” and the... Read more »
Top tips for recruitment businesses from a legal perspective
I’ve been asked to give my top tips for recruitment businesses from a legal perspective. I could probably speak or blog for hours about this, but here are a few tips to help you on your way. 1 If you are agency recruiters and you use umbrella companies to facilitate candidate placements, do your due... Read more »
The Legal Challenges facing Recruitment Businesses in the early years
From a legal perspective, the challenges that a recruitment business faces in its early years should hopefully be small. As long as the legal structure of the business is in place from the outset, the company should be free to grow without too many legal issues. But it’s all about getting on the right legal... Read more »
Do Recruiters really understand the Agency Workers Regulations?! (Or, Yet another application of Supervision, Direction or Control)
The Agency Workers Regulations 2010 (AWR) came into effect on 1st October 2011. But even after all this time I am often asked whether they apply to particular situations when recruiters are placing Contractors with Clients. As most of us know, the AWR give agency workers the same or no less favourable treatment as comparable... Read more »