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Atypical workers

Locked	Date	Title	Author	Type	Abstract
	1 Dec 2009	Autoclenz Ltd v Belcher & ors	Timothy Brennan QC, Devereux Chambers	ELA Briefing	Documents containing express contractual terms that were inconsistent with `employee' or `worker' status were correctly disregarded by the employment tribunal.
	20 Feb 2008	Casual Workers	Chris Jeans QC	Lecture Notes
	5 Feb 2008	Court of Appeal hands down major agency workers judgment	News from the IDS Employment Law Team	Employment News	The Court of Appeal today handed down judgment in James v London Borough of Greenwich, and in doing so confirmed that only on grounds of necessity can an employment tribunal imply a contract of employ...
	8 Feb 2006	Court of Appeal holds Modern Apprenticeship can be contract of apprenticeship		Employment News	The Court of Appeal, in the case of Flett v Matheson, has suggested that a Modern Apprenticeship arrangement can constitute a common law contract of apprenticeship.
	1 Jan 2003	DTI Roundtable on Employment Status	Rachael Wright, Osborne Clarke and Paul Daniels, Russell Jones & Walker	ELA Briefing	Rachel Wright and Paul Daniels recently attended, as ELA representatives, a Department for Trade and Industry (DTI) roundtable on employee status. ELA Briefing readers may recall that, earlie...
	12 Jan 2007	EAT decision on parallel contracts of employment		Employment News	The EAT, in Cairns v Visteon Ltd, has handed down a judgment dealing with whether a worker can be employed both by an employment agency and by the end-user to which the agency provides the worker's se...
	1 Apr 2006	Employees and Volunteers	Kathryn McConnell, Nabarro Nathanson	ELA Briefing	Case law in recent years has highlighted the need for charities and other not-for-profit organisations to distinguish carefully between their employees and volunteers to avoid the potential liabilitie...
	15 Jan 2007	Employers? sigh of relief over agency workers		Employment News	In James v Greenwich Council, the EAT (Elias P presiding) upheld the finding of an employment tribunal that the claimant, whose services were supplied to the respondent by an employment agency, was no...
	12 Jul 2007	Employment Simplification Bill		Employment News	On 11 July, the Prime Minister announced the Government's draft legislative program for the next session of Parliament. Among the proposals is an 'Employment Simplification Bill', which will repeal th...
	27 Sep 2012	Equity partner in limited liability partnership was not a ‘worker’	News from the IDS Employment Team	Employment News	In Clyde and Co LLP and anor v Bates Van Winkelhof the Court of Appeal has held that a member of a limited liability partnership (LLP) was not an ‘employee’ or ‘worker’ for the purposes of the Employm...