Consultancy agreements for the self employed

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Our employment law team are specialists in advising on consultancy agreements and self-employed contracts. If you would like to retain us as your legal adviser, please refer to the employment contracts page or call us on 0845 225 2635.

Employment status: is this genuine self-employment?

It is very important to ensure that, in terms of the actual reality of the agreement between the parties, (as appose to what is merely written down!) the individual is genuinely self-employed. For more on this, take a look at our section on employment status.

What is the risk?

If the parties wrongly attribute self employed status on someone who is actually an employee, there are three principle (substantial) risks:

• The individual may claim unfair dismissal on termination;
• The Inland Revenue may wish to have had tax and national insurance deducted at source and may wish for an account of sums owed;
• The individual may be entitled to holiday pay (this may be so even if they are a “worker” as appose to an employee.

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