Employment Status Roadmap 3rd ed.

Employment Status Roadmap – 3rd ed 201025

The Employment Status Roadmap is a practical blueprint for fixing the UK’s fragmented rules on employment status.  THis is much needed so that tax, rights and responsibility actually line up across the modern labour supply chain. It explains how the current mix of IR35, off payroll, agency and umbrella rules are failing workers, compliant businesses and the Exchequer.  It then sets out twelve concrete measures across four pillars: cleaner legislation, stronger and more transparent supply chains, day one rights where people are taxed as employees, and simpler digital tools to make and evidence status decisions. Designed for ministers, officials, end clients, agencies, umbrellas and worker groups.  The Roadmap looks ahead to an AI enabled, project based labour market and proposes future-proof reforms.  These are such as a tax triggers rights principle, a dependent contractor tier, joint and several liability for non compliant umbrellas, and digital tools like SDS+, Chain IDs and a proposed StatusHub. This is so the UK can have a fair, future proof framework for contingent work.