Template for 3mer Guidance Leaflet

The courts distinguish between an employee, defined in s.248(1) of the Income Tax Act, hereafter, ITA, as the “position of an individual in the service of some other person”. An independent contractor, is someone with a “contract for service.” The case that considered an employee versus and independent contractor was Wiebe Door Service Ltd. v M.N.R. In this case, the applicant owned a door instalment business and had a number of contractors that worked for them. The contractors were responsible for their own taxes, workers compensation and unemployment insurance. However

This work book has been designed for learners to help them provide the evidence needed to achieve unit R/602/2954 Understand employment responsibilities and rights in health, social or children and young people’s settings, which has been added to the following qualifications

The main features of current employment legislation are:- Health and Safety at Work Act (1974), Minimum Wage Act (1998), Pensions Act (2008), Employment Rights Act (1996), Disability Discrimination Act (1996), Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (1974), Sex Discrimination Act (1975) and the Race Relations Act (1976) .

* The importance of work life balance and related legislation concerning holidays, rest periods, working hours and night

Self-employed people will run their own business, they will be contracted to provide a service their clients. They will not be paid through PAYE and they do not have the same employment rights as employees or workers, Self-employed people will however still have protection for their health and safety on a client’s premises, they will have their rights and responsibilities set out in the terms of the contract with the client. They will not be entitled to holiday pay. They may however in some cases be classed as self-employed for tax purposes but classed as an employee or worker for employment rights. See point 2 Appendix

Three different types of employment status are an employee, a worker and self-employed. An employee can be part-time, full-time, permanent or temporary. They will work under a contract of employment which can be written or verbal. They have full rights. All employees will be workers but not all workers are employees. Workers do still have some rights. Workers will be working under various contracts. Workers do have part rights. This is one

As an employee, your employer is obliged by law to take off Income Tax and National Insurance contributions from your salary or wages before paying them to you. You're also entitled to all minimum legal employment rights including:

They are entitled to core employment rights and protection such as receiving national minimum wage and unlawful deductions from their wages.

23. Contract Collective Work : It is an agreement between one or more unions of workers and one or more employers or one or more unions of employers, in order to establish the conditions under which the work must be in a business or establishment. The employer who employs workers members of a union shall be bound to celebrate with

The definition of 'employee' and 'worker' differs slightly from one area of legislation to another, but generally workers have less rights

Those who are self employed will need to search for insurance for themselves. There are numerous types of applicable insurance, but only specific types will be adequate enough for someone who is considered to be self employed or working on their own. A general problem that many self employed workers experience is trying to find insurance that will be able to provide them with coverage without costing too much money.

It would be unusual to classify outside sales persons as self-employed, unless they were already established and self-employed businesses, and actually only had retail partner agreements.

Collective bargaining could also be defined as negotiations relating to terms of employment and conditions of work between an employer, a group of employers or an employers' organization on the one hand, and representative workers' organizations on the other, with a view to reaching agreement.

Collective bargaining is a process by which workers through unions negotiate with their employers their working conditions. This could be health and safety policies, remuneration, benefits, working hours and leave. Collective bargaining is a tool used to solve workplace problems. The sole objective of this negotiation is to arrive at an agreement between workers and employers thus cementing effectiveness, efficiency and productivity in the workplace. Collective agreement is the result of the process of collective bargaining. The stages of collective bargaining are preparation, opening the negotiation, bargaining and closure and agreement.

It is important to consider that the self-employed make less money than salary-receiving employees, for a variety of reasons. This matters because it is the most direct reason as to why most of the self-employed live in poverty or are more susceptible to poverty. Lower pay can be caused by ineffective government policies, as argued by Gary Fields, a Professor of Economics at Cornell University with experience in producing government programs related to this for a num-