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Tag: Contractors

What Is a Contractor & How Is Using Them Beneficial?

February 13, 2023

By Sebastian Duncan

A contractor is a self-employed person or company that is hired to perform set tasks or services for another company …

What’s the future for contractor SMEs in a post-Brexit world

October 18, 2019

By Annie May Noonan

The UK construction sector has been an industry phoenix constantly rising and recovering from the ashes of recession. But for smaller contractors, will Brexit prove a challenge too far?

Spotting modern slavery “hiding in plain sight”

August 28, 2018

By Staff writer

With the number of potential modern slavery victims soaring to over 5,000 last year, a legal expert has urged businesses to recognise the warning signs “hiding in plain sight?.

750,000 employment status results are called into question, but why?

June 21, 2018

By Letitia Booty

The interpretation of the mutuality of obligation aspect of the IR35 laws are being hotly contested today as David Chaplin of ContractCalculator accuses HMRC of misleading the Chancellor.

It is important bosses in the gig economy stay flexible and open to change

July 12, 2017

By Staff writer

Unless you have been living in a cave, you will not have escaped the headlines of the Americanism known as the gig economy. This is now an increasingly popular way of working, especially with the millennial generation.

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