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Sarah | 13 October 2015
/ / / /marketing | 21 September 2015
/ / / /Umbrella.co.uk were delighted to support Jeans for Genes day, which took place on Friday 18th September 2015. From double denim and bootcut to skinny and flared, staff made a denim statement at their Wilmslow head office.
marketing | 15 September 2015
/ / / / /Contractors can save an average of £1,000 per year on their shopping bills and benefit from hundreds of pounds worth of other rewards as part of the new Umbrella Max and Accounts Max schemes, provided by Wilmslow-based contractor financial services specialist Umbrella.co.uk.
marketing | 3 August 2015
/ / / /Amid controversy over the Summer Budget four-pronged attack on the contracting sector, a separate and potentially troublesome government crackdown has gone relatively unnoticed.
marketing | 20 July 2015
/ / / / /On Friday HMRC released the discussion document inviting contributions from the industry on how best to police the murky area of disguised employment.
At first glance the consultation seems conflicted proposing two equally unsatisfactory options and then asks for someone else to come up with the magic solution for this thorny issue.
Perhaps the most concerning element of the document can be found on page 8 where it is suggested that the engaging party rather than the PSC be held responsible for the deduction of TAX and NI exactly as they would for a normal employee. Based on how open to interpretation the current legislation is and how few successful cases HMRC bring against contractors it is surely unfair to expect the engager in these circumstances to make that decision and then enforce it onto a supplier that they want to keep on side.
marketing | 9 October 2015
/ / / / / /Self-employed contractors and umbrella PAYE employees had lots of reasons to cheer at this year’s party conferences. We’ve highlighted some of the most important points that could affect our clients.
As the party in government, what came out of the Conservative camp in Manchester will have the most immediate impact for our contractors.
David Cameron announced a relaxation of planning rules in an attempt to boost home ownership. Under the plans, builders would no longer be required to offer low-cost ‘affordable’ homes as part of new developments. More building work is always welcomed by construction contractors whether they are self-employed or PAYE.
marketing | 17 September 2015
/ / / / / /A recent European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling will have some important consequences for European employment law - specifically for contractors under the Working Time Directive (WTD).
Last week, the ECJ ruled that a group of Spanish workers with no ‘fixed or habitual’ workplace should have their time travelling to and from their first and last appointments counted against the 48 hour maximum working week.
The case involved a team of burglar alarm technicians who sometimes spent three hours travelling home at the end of their working day.
The European court ruled that these contractors should receive remuneration for the time they spent travelling to and from work, because they are at their ‘employer’s disposal’, carrying out their activities and duties ‘in accordance with national laws and/or practices’.
To keep contractors up to speed on their entitlements under European law, we’ve explained three of the most important details of the ECJ ruling:
marketing | 4 August 2015
/ / / / / /Of interest to recruitment agencies who supply agency workers in the UK is the ruling on 31st July 2015 in the case of Coles v Ministry of Defence (Case Ref UKEAT/0403/14/RN).
marketing | 27 July 2015
/ / / /Several weeks on, the contracting and freelancing sector has had time to digest George Osborne’s ‘emergency’ summer Budget. In case you missed it, the chancellor had several nasty surprises up his sleeve on 8th July as he delivered the first all-Conservative Budget since November 1996. In what was described by industry commentators as a four-pronged attack on limited company contractors, the MP for Tatton announced that:
- A new tax on dividends would be introduced, with a view to tackling “tax-motivated incorporation”
marketing | 10 July 2015
/ / / /Following George Osborne’s Budget speech there’s been a lot of conjecture and analysis of what the changes will mean for the contracting industry. Now that the dust has settled and the numbers have been crunched, there’s no getting away from the truth of the matter – it’s not good news, despite the excitement of Ian Duncan Smith. However, it’s certainly not all doom and gloom and changes to how contractors are taxed won’t diminish the growing demand for their skills.
