What about those people whose services you may use but who
are not your employees? Ensure that you are clear about the distinctions
between these groups of workers and that you don't treat them as
employees, thus unwittingly giving them employment rights.
Employment status
Agency workers
Work experience and unpaid placements
Working with clients, contractors and other third parties
Agency workers: as from 24 December, agency workers in Great Britain
who started working for you on a placement either on or before 1 October 2011
are now entitled to receive the same rate of pay as that of a comparable
employee on an open-ended contract.
See: agency workers
Ministers of religion: the Court of Appeal in Great Britain has
decided that a Methodist minister is an employee and may bring a claim to
an employment tribunal.
See: employment status
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