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Employment standing
Richards v Waterfield Homes Ltd and one other [2022]
Mr Richards, a carpenter, was engaged by Waterfield Homes from 2010 to 2018 on a self-employed foundation. He was paid by way of HMRC’s Construction Industry Scheme (CIS), which is a tax mechanism unavailable to workers.
In 2018, Waterfield was suggested to maneuver its contractors to employment contracts, as its contractor contracts wouldn’t cross HMRC scrutiny. Mr Richards was given a brand new employment contract (as have been its different contractor colleagues), which acknowledged his steady service started from 2018. Mr Richards argued his service commenced in 2010 when he had first began with the corporate; in different phrases, that he had been an worker of the corporate all through the time that he had been working for them.
The Employment Tribunal at first occasion discovered that, even the place the info present a number of indicators of employment standing, if there is just one indication of self-employment, that is determinative of the difficulty. Put merely, Mr Richards was self-employed since this was the true intention of the events.
The claimant appealed.
The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) discovered the tribunal had erred in its resolution. It held that the events’ intentions don’t alone decide employment standing and that the primary tribunal was incorrect in inserting an excessive amount of emphasis on…
