Worker, employee or neither: substitution, control, and the platform cases that keep testing the line.
The Amsterdam Court of Appeal has held that Uber drivers are not employees, five years after the Supreme Court held they were workers. Same app, opposite answers — and the reversal turns on a factor English law barely weighs: what the driver does when the app is off.
A new Industrial Law Journal study argues that porn content creators are limb (b) workers of the platforms that host them. The doctrine it relies on is settled, and almost nothing in the argument is specific to pornography.
The Court of Appeal’s ruling in Fasano confirms the limits of agency under the Equality Act, exposing a liability black hole for claimants in corporate group structures.
A new economics paper models how AI reshapes firms from pyramids to diamonds. The implications for redundancy law, workforce planning, and the junior lawyers who may never be hired are worth taking seriously.
The ET found a farmer was neither employee nor worker. The High Court, on largely the same facts, found he was an employee. Both decisions stand. Hollington v Hewthorn explains why.
The EAT holds that an offer letter containing salary, start date, and benefits creates a binding contract even when expressed as 'subject to' references and right-to-work checks, those are conditions subsequent, not precedent. Three months' implied notice for a senior role.