Question: Is the difference between 'employee', 'worker' and 'self-employed' persons made sufficiently clear in UK employment law?
Answer: The distinction between the notions of ‘employee’, ‘worker’ and ‘self-employed’ persons is not sufficiently clear in the UK employment law. This problem is due to: 1) lack of statutory guidance in differentiating those three terminologies; 2) judicial engineering through the common law and 3) the problems deriving from management practices. Despite this uncertainty, different legal implications are attached to each those categories in terms of the rights and liabilities, in line with Freedland’s contention that it is a fundamental exercise in employment law to identify who is an employee and who is an independent contractor,...(short extract)
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- Subject: Law
- Course: Employment Law
- Level: Degree
- Year: 2nd/3rd
- Mark: 64%
- Words: 2836
- Date submitted: August 08, 2010
- Date written: November, 2009
- References: Yes
- Document type: Essay*
- Essay ID: 3331
