Freelancers reminded that labels don’t decide or alter employment status | Free-Work - Any “label” that freelancer and client apply to their working relationship together counts but only as a slim, single factor, an Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has clarified. Furthermore, even if freelancer and client both agree on what the label should state, “self-employment” for example, such unanimity cannot alter or decide their true relationship. And thirdly,...
Netherlands MVV: what self-employed Britons need to know | Free-Work - It’s encouraging to see UK creative industries professionals who work on a freelance basis being directed towards the Netherlands’s MVV visa. But there’s quite a bit of small print for Britons to first get their head around before they can gauge if they are eligible for this long-stay visa, writes Kevin Austin, managing director of...
Two creative heavyweights are fighting ‘Oxford University’s Uberisation’ | Free-Work - Busy freelancers may not have noticed, but two creative writing lecturers at Oxford University have brought a claim against the university on the basis of their employment status, writes Rebecca Seeley Harris of ReLegal Consulting. The lecturers, Alice Jolly and Rebecca Abrams, believe that they have been misclassified and are, they therefore allege, missing out...
Freelancers, here’s your 2023 marketing plan for your self-employed biz | Free-Work - Are you ready to boost your self-employed business in 2023? Good! Why not make this year your most successful one yet with this simple, step-by-step marketing plan to win new business as a freelancer, build your brand as a sole trader and grow your network. Exclusively for readers of FreelanceUK, here are my five tips...
Major Players asks creative industries freelancers to have their say | Free-Work - ‘What is your worth?’ ‘Are you being paid fairly?’ ‘Have pay rate gaps improved?’ Open for answers until Wednesday, the three questions are being posed by creative industries recruitment agency Major Players to readers of FreelanceUK. The trio are part of the agency’s Creative Industries Census 2023 – an annual call for views to marketers,...