Practical Law

This is the question which the employment tribunal has recently grappled with in Forstater v CGD Europe and others.  Ms Forstater was a researcher who worked for the think tank CGD. She claimed that her contract was not renewed because of views she expressed on social media and elsewhere regarding transgender persons and proposed changes … Continue reading Does a belief that sex is biologically immutable amount to a philosophical belief protected by the Equality Act 2010? →

Those interested in the tests for employment status continue to be rewarded by the stream of gig economy cases working their way upwards from the Employment Tribunal (ET), through the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) and beyond. In parallel, the Tax Chamber of the First-tier Tribunal (FTT) has been grappling with the issue of employment status … Continue reading Expectations as obligations: woolly thinking on mutuality of obligation →

2017 has seen a series of cases concerning limb (b) worker status arising from the ‘gig economy’. Putative workers have claimed entitlements to be paid the minimum wage, holiday pay and so on, on the basis that they meet the definition of a ‘limb (b)’ worker, viz. a person working under a contract “whereby the … Continue reading Substitution and worker status →