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Staff engagement models & contingent workforce

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We help you decide how to engage your flexible workforce.

Our expertise covers all aspects of non-permanent and remote workforces. We support a wide variety of businesses, whether end-user or intermediary, on issues including the suitability of arrangements, appropriate agreements, rights and obligations, and dispute management.

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Our services including advising on all non-standard and contingent workforce arrangements and issues related to:

Contractors, freelancers, consultants
IR35, including status determination, template documents / communications and dealing with overseas contractors
Agency workers
Secondments
Staffing suppliers and intermediaries such as employment businesses, employment agencies (including in the media and entertainment industry), umbrella companies and employers of record
Conduct Regulations and Employment Agency Standards Inspectorate
Platform/gig economy/on-demand / tech-based structures
Staff augmentation
Casual / zero hours workers
Interns / volunteers
Apprentices

We can review and amend contracts and documentation, provide templates, advise you on compliance strategies and assist you when disputes arise. We’ll check your service provision agreements to prevent them from falling into the staff supply regulatory regime – and we’ll do all of this from a domestic and international perspective.

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Employment agencies, employment businesses and other staffing intermediaries

Our specialists can advise you on a wide range of issues arising out of staff supply arrangements, and help you to manage:

Temporary work agencies and employment businesses
Recruiters and employment agencies
Master/neutral vendors
Talent agencies
Umbrella companies
Agents/employers of record

We’re experts on the requirements of the Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Business Regulations 2003 and the Agency Workers Regulations 2010.

We can advise you on:

Determining whether an arrangement is a supply of a service or of staff/labour
End-user relationships with staffing intermediaries, including drafting and negotiating contracts
Master Service Provider / Master Vendor arrangements
The use of and arrangements with umbrella companies
Employer of Record (EOR) / Agent of Record (AOR) arrangements
Audits, inspections, and other regulatory action by the Employment Agencies Standards Inspectorate
The impact of the Conduct Regulations on online and tech-based / “gig economy” platforms
Employment status, IR35, and the “agency rules”
Agency workers

For international employers, we also provide advice on the use of staffing intermediaries, tech-based platform structures, and labour leasing. We review and amend contracts and documentation, provide templates, advise on compliance strategies, and assist when disputes arise.

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