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Fashion startup embraces freelancers
A new marketplace and platform has been launched to help independent fashion and jewellery designers not become overshadowed by either fast, low-quality fashion or flagship fashion houses during the Cost of Living Crisis. It's introducing…
Barclays enters self-employed mortgage market
Kensington Mortgages, a specialist mortgage lender that caters to the self-employed, has been sold to Barclays Bank UK PLC. The sale follows an auction process that attracted a broad range of bidders, highlighting that the freelancer…
Unions threaten teacher strikes and exam result delays
Pupils across the UK could face delays in receiving their GCSE and A-Level results if exam board AQA fails to improve its pay offer to staff, UNISON warned today. A ballot for strike action is in place. Is the big teacher strike next?
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Agency workers to fill staff gaps during strike action
A new law will swiftly come into action to allow businesses to supply skilled agency workers to plug staffing gaps during industrial action, the government has reported.
The news is found surprising by employment experts given the…
Freelancing is the ideal soft landing for retirement
Don't retire. Go freelance. This societal mindset could radically improve the world's workplace talent pool and financial viability going into full retirement, argues data scientist Erik Stettler
Our work is a big part of our…
UK staff cuts to spike freelancer demand says Fiverr
Two new surveys published today, National Freelancers Day, reveal some telling freelancer hiring and talent trends and why we can expect to see freelancer numbers grow in 2022.
Almost one-third of UK freelancers attribute increased…
Call for agency staff to break strikes – will contractors and recruiters take the risk?
It is unclear how serious the government is in its proposals to change the law around strikes and agency workers – or how interested major staffing companies would be in getting involved in what would be highly controversial supplies.…
IR35: Move abroad and you’ll get preferential treatment from UK clients, says contractor
READER LETTERS
I have been following your newsletter and meaning to get in touch for a while. I am one of the many small business operators in the IT sector who emigrated in recent years due to IR35 changes and ever-increasing taxes…
Fiverr launches new platform called Togetherr™
Getting access to $50K+ advertising campaigns as a freelancer could be career-changingThe new company’s proprietary technology, the Creative Genome™, uses AI and machine learning to build creative teams for each unique project and…
The IR35 F-up: how do we explain it to our kids?
If the UK remains inhospitable territory for freelancers then we can probably expect younger generations to have delayed career trajectories.
OPINION
Most 18-year-olds won't have a clue what tax regulation IR35 is, but in my family,…