Employment Law for Self-Employed People
Self-Employed Contracts
As a self-employed person, you might not think that you need to worry about employment law.
However, it’s still very important – perhaps even more so – because you could easily end up being the worker or employee of your client or customer if the working relationship is not carefully arranged and does not reflect a genuine self-employed arrangement in the way that it works on a day-to-day basis.
Whilst IR35 is one of those things that you need to be aware of, it is tax law, which is separate to the employment law impact of your working relationship with your clients and customers.
From an employment law perspective, you might want to:-
- Have a self-employed contract that you’ve been offered reviewed to understand whether you will actually be self-employed (we’ve seen some corkers in our time and can guarantee that not every “self-employed contract” is actually a self-employed contract); or
- Have your own contract drafted that you can offer to the clients and customers that you work with, so that you have certainty over the terms that you are offering to your clients and customers.
