Empowering Agency Workers

Understanding your pay as a temporary worker can be difficult at the best of times, let alone when you are paid via an umbrella company. There can be confusion over assignment rate vs your gross pay, plus confusion over employers NICs and other overheads. So we chat to Roy Beale who is an expert in this space, and he explains how it should work and some of the ‘mischief’

A recent tribunal case is set to have a massive impact on how holiday is calculated for all workers who’s hours vary, and this of course includes temporary workers. The case involves Mrs Brazel who was a visiting music tutor at Harpur Trust school. Brazel was engaged on a zero hours contract and queried how her holiday was calculated. Whilst it seems logical for holiday to be

All workers in the UK have a statutory right to 5.6 weeks paid holiday per year, and as a temporary worker it’s doubly important to make sure you receive your right. So we’re chatting to legal expert and friend of the show Rebecca Seeley-Harris who sheds some much-needed light on the subject. Join us to find out: Why a Court of Appeal ruling against Pimlico Plumbers is

Temporary workers and contractors are often required to choose an umbrella from a preferred supplier list (PSL) operated by their recruitment agency. Some workers feel this restricts their choice, however many recruitment firms operate PSLs that are in workers’ best interests. We wanted to learn more about PSLs from the agency perspective so chatted to Bernie Payne, a complia

Temporary workers and contractors are often required to choose an umbrella from a preferred supplier list (PSL) operated by their recruitment agency. Today we’re talking to Paul Sheraton, an IT contractor who recently launched an official petition aiming to allow workers the right to choose their own umbrella rather than be restricted by preferred supplier lists. Also joining

“Rhetoric is just hot air if you don’t translate what you’re saying into action.” In the second of a two-part special, we’re continuing our chat with Emma Freivogel of Radical Recruit about truly inclusive recruitment. We all know that people with protected characteristics cannot legally be discriminated against, but have you stopped to think about oth

“Everyone wants to work, I don’t know anyone that wants to spend a life in poverty.” In the first of a two-part special, we chat to Emma Freivogel of Radical Recruit about truly inclusive recruitment. She works with radicals, people who have huge amounts to offer any employer but their background often means it is difficult to gain employment. This is truly inspirational stuf

Temporary workers and contractors will often be required to be paid via an umbrella company and often recruitment agencies operate a preferred supplier list (PSL) of umbrella companies that their worker can choose from. In this episode, IWORK’s founder, Julia Kermode, discusses why she thinks umbrella PSLs should be abolished. She has proposed this as one of her recommendatio

Today we’re honoured to talk to two of the lead creators of the Loan Charge settlement proposal, Sarah Gabbai, tax lawyer at McDermott Will & Emery; and Keith Gordon, tax barrister at Temple Tax Chambers. The Loan Charge is a piece of legislation that seeks to charge people tax on income that they received going back 10 years or more. Thousands of contractors are affected