Independent Contractor in UK Law
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RESTRICTION ON AGENT'S RENEWAL COMMISSION: AN UNREASONABLE RESTRAINT OF TRADE MARSHALL v N.M. FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT LTD.. (HIGH COURT CHANCERY DIVISION) JONATHAN SUMPTION QC SITTING AS DEPUTY HIGH COURT JUDGE
The Plaintiff, a self‐employed sales agent, was engaged on 21st November, 1980 by the Defendant, a financial services company selling life assurance and pension policies. The terms of his engagemen...... ... the latter provided, inter alia, (1) that he should be an independent contractor remunerated by commis-sion payable on premiums generated by ... ...
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Regulating the Scope of Employment in the Gig Economy: Towards Enhanced Rights at Work in the Age of Uber
The growth of the gig economy sector presents challenges for employment lawyers. Firms such as Uber label their workforce as 'independent contractors', meaning many in the gig economy often lie out...... ... Firms such as Uber label their workforce as ‘independent contractors’, meaning many in the gig economy often lie outside the ... courts are not prevented by the mere label of ‘independent contractor’ from holding those working in the gig economy as workers. However, as ... ...
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Regulating Supply Chains to Protect Road Transport Workers: An Early Assessment of the Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal
The Road Safety Remuneration Act 2012 (Cth) (the Act) explicitly enables the Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal to make orders that can impose binding requirements on all the participants in the roa...... ... of the chain, for the pay and safety of both employee and independent contractor drivers. The tribunal is also specifically empowered to make ... ...
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Vicarious Liability and Independent Contractors — A Re‐examination
... ... are independent contractors then, as Lord Bridge recently stated, it is3: trite law that the employer of an independent contractor is, in general, not liable for the negligence or other torts committed by the contractor in the course of the execution of ... ...
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Independent professionals and the potential for HRM innovation
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine “black box” links between HRM innovations and organizational performance by investigating the perspective of a workforce often excluded from the HR ...... ... findingssuggest by adopting an innovative hybrid commitment-compliance HR configuration, practitioners maypositively increase desirable contractor outcomes.Social implications –Concerns that organizational imperatives for efficiency, quality and highperformance will be compromised by ... ...
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Subject Index
... ... AND FOREIGN LAW Income tax, see REVENUE Independent contractor, see INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY Injunctions, see LABOUR ... ...
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Employment, health and safety
... ... (iv) Computation of compensation/assessment of claims 1625 Independent contractor 1626 (i) Introduction 1626 (ii) Who is an independent ... ...
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The site
... ... of failure to provide access 699 (v) Nature of the contractor’s use of land 700 (vi) revocation of contractor’s licence to occupy ... legislation 760 Statutory liability for damage to property 762 Independent contractor 762 Ownership of materials, plant and equipment 765 (i) ... ...
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