Despite being far from comprehensive, new employment status proposals could still help more than 900,000 people. But ...

A long-promised government consultation on employment status could protect vulnerable workers without undermining genuine ...

Two senior solicitors share a debt-collection company with a director of West 28th Street. ContractorUK investigates the ...

Before the chancellor even gets to his feet on October 28th, the UK mortgage market is already pulling in two directions. Yet ...

Workers’ rights, not tax, look set to reshape UK contracting under Labour — a prospect my chat with chancellor John Healey ...

Will you still get paid on Friday if your umbrella company is sold? An adviser who’s been in the deal room sets out 10 ...

Not all umbrellas are equal. Two with no written contracts, with ‘their’ workers or their client, and which didn’t actually ...

FCSA has expelled MyPay after HMRC’s winding-up petition, but the umbrella still claims accreditation. An ex-HMRC inspector says steer clear, the REC urges caution, and APSCo tells agencies to ...

Growth is expected to top chancellor John Healey’s agenda when he delivers his first Budget on Wednesday October 28th 2026. Just how he’ll do this remains to be seen, but key announcements may include ...

With one month to go until Autumn Budget 2026, top contractor advisers have made ten predictions about what John Healey will announce for contractors — exclusively to ContractorUK. Speaking on ...

When Camino Alta principal John Whelan remarked that “HMRC is cruelly seeking to transfer debts to individuals” in the Churchill Knight (CK) and Boox Managed Service Company (MSC) cases, he urged ...

UK demand for contract IT skills climbed in August 2026, growing for the second month in a row despite the seasonally quiet time, and to its greatest buoyancy since April 2023, says the REC. The ...