DBF are a class act. We used them for the sale of a house. Professional, clear and responsive. Craig and Belinda who handled our case were great. Nothing was too much trouble, responsive and easy to get hold of.
The Taylor Review was published this month. The proposals include: –
- Keeping the distinction between employers and workers and naming workers “dependent contractors”.
- Definitions to be implemented for employees and workers.
- Removing the requirement for workers to have a contract to preform work personally.
- Treating workers treated as “employed” for the purposes of their tax status.
- Extending the right to a written statement of terms to workers as well as employees.
- Requirement for written statement to be given from the outset of employment.
- Written statements to include a description of statutory rights.
- A standalone compensation for failure to provide written statements.
- Increasing in the rate of national minimum wage for hours that are not guaranteed.
- Preservation of continuity of employment, where the gap is less than 1 month rather than 1 week.
- Increasing the reference period for calculating holiday pay in cases where pay is variable from 12 week to 52 weeks.
- Agency workers to have a right to require a direct contract after 12 months on an assignment.
- Zero hours contractors to have the right to request guaranteed hours after 12 months.
- Allowing flexible working requests to cover temporary as well as permanent changes to contracts.
- Providing SSP to all workers.
- Individuals to have the right to return to work following long term sickness absence.
- Whilst the above are some of the recommendations, they will not all be easy to implement. It will be a matter of waiting to see how the proposals are received by the Government and the extent to which they are implemented.
