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Agency workers to fill staff gaps during strike action
A new law will swiftly come into action to allow businesses to supply skilled agency workers to plug staffing gaps during industrial action, the government has reported.
The news is found surprising by employment experts given the…
Freelancing is the ideal soft landing for retirement
Don't retire. Go freelance. This societal mindset could radically improve the world's workplace talent pool and financial viability going into full retirement, argues data scientist Erik Stettler
Our work is a big part of our…
UK staff cuts to spike freelancer demand says Fiverr
Two new surveys published today, National Freelancers Day, reveal some telling freelancer hiring and talent trends and why we can expect to see freelancer numbers grow in 2022.
Almost one-third of UK freelancers attribute increased…
Call for agency staff to break strikes – will contractors and recruiters take the risk?
It is unclear how serious the government is in its proposals to change the law around strikes and agency workers – or how interested major staffing companies would be in getting involved in what would be highly controversial supplies.…
IR35: Move abroad and you’ll get preferential treatment from UK clients, says contractor
READER LETTERS
I have been following your newsletter and meaning to get in touch for a while. I am one of the many small business operators in the IT sector who emigrated in recent years due to IR35 changes and ever-increasing taxes…
Fiverr launches new platform called Togetherr™
Getting access to $50K+ advertising campaigns as a freelancer could be career-changingThe new company’s proprietary technology, the Creative Genome™, uses AI and machine learning to build creative teams for each unique project and…
The IR35 F-up: how do we explain it to our kids?
If the UK remains inhospitable territory for freelancers then we can probably expect younger generations to have delayed career trajectories.
OPINION
Most 18-year-olds won't have a clue what tax regulation IR35 is, but in my family,…
Modern-day “serfdom”? Brits spend over 40% of the year working for the taxman. Umbrella…
Taxpayers worked 159 days for HMRC this year. The 8th of June is the first day they start working for themselves. But with umbrella company contractors forking out both employee and employer national insurance contributions, and the…
“I’m a miracle”: cancer disappears in 14 people after experimental use of immunotherapy
The following is an excerpt of an account published by Memorial Sloan Ketting Cancer Center regarding how rectal cancer disappeared in some 14 people following experimental use of immunotherapy. Given there has been a disturbing rise in…
The political party most likely to win the hearts of voters if the general election was held…
OPINION
From the 88 constituencies which the Conservatives either (a) won from Labour in 2019, or (b) currently hold with a majority of less than 15pts over Labour, YouGov's modelling predicts that just three would remain in…