A case this month has examined the practice of selecting for redundancy by making employees compete for new roles and sacking the unsuccessful applicants.  It has long been established that the selection criteria for selecting in this way, i.e. who gets a new post, are judged by a slightly different...

The Court of Appeal has handed down a judgment on whether or not a sub-contractor was in fact a worker, or properly self-employed. It is very important to note that this question is dealt with from an employment rights point of view, not a tax point of view.  The reason...