Quote: JerryChicken "Congratulations on the new job to start with.
I deal with most of the largest agencies but don't have knowledge of how they pay their employees, but I'm pretty sure that they do pay them as employees, in other words they are not self employed but have tax and NIS deducted at source.
As an employer a few years ago I know I had to be very careful about employing self employed people on a full time basis, in that it couldn't be on a full time basis or we both had to show that they actually could work elsewhere and were truly freelance.
I'd be sceptical to be honest and an accountant would be a very good place to start when asking advice, also have you asked any other agencies what their policies are and is your agency one of the Nationals or just a small local one ?'"
It's not so much the full-time aspect, as whose direction you work under, whose equipment is used, who decides the hours, if the work is not to standard who rectifies it, can the "worker" substitute another person to complete the work for him if he becomes unavaiable, etc, etc. The particular facts determine the probability of employment or self-employment existing. Ultimately, if push came to shove only the legal system can decide. These people who advertise "IR35 proof" contracts, schemes, etc are doing nothing of the sort. Each case in law rests on the particular facts of the case.