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Labour Party proposals: will they help or hinder contractors and freelancers?
At the onset, the Labour Party's new spree of proposals impacting the world of work is promising. For one, the Party takes the realities of everyday people seriously, like juggling school hours with working hours and the cost of living.…
PINGDEMIC: A guide for contractors, freelancers and sole traders
4.2 million self-employed workers do not qualify for SSP
The NHS Track & Trace "pingdemic" has dominated the UK news headlines over the past two weeks. The Freelance Informer reports on the latest statutory sick pay entitlements of…
Self-employed denied SEISS worse off than furloughed says IFS study
Those self-employed workers who lost 100% of their work in the first lockdown saw a sharp rise in deprivation in the wake of the pandemic. Their financial circumstances have seen little improvement, according to a Joseph Rowntree…
DWP stung with £87.9m in “fruitless” IR35 liabilities
The Department for Work and Pensions, which administers the State Pension and a range of working age, disability and ill health benefits to around 20 million claimants and customers has reported £87.9m in national insurance liabilities…
Half of companies have regrets over IR35 decisions and blanket bans
Four in ten businesses impacted by recent changes to IR35 in the private sector have admitted they would approach the changes differently if given the opportunity. This is according to a study carried out by IR35 specialist, Qdos, in which…
Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin: can they be more than ‘space’ joyrides for millionaires?
By Ian Whittaker, Nottingham Trent University and Gareth Dorrian, University of Birmingham
Billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson and his team successfully flew to the “edge of space” on the Unity 22 mission aboard a Virgin Galactic…
Freedom Day: small business owners may need to take extra precautions into their own hands to avoid…
SMALL BUSINESS FREEDOM DAY REPORT
The government has confirmed that ‘Freedom Day’ will go ahead as planned on Monday 19 July in a bid to boost the economy. But 53% of small businesses including freelancers and solopreneurs polled think…
Johnson and Sunak not to take part in daily contact testing pilot but others might
The Freelance Informer highlights what the daily contact testing pilot is, how it works and why some may be chosen to take part as the number of COVID cases will rise this August and September despite double vaccinations.
Following…
Most COVID deaths in England now are in the vaccinated – here’s why that shouldn’t alarm you
As we get older the risk of dying from COVID doubles every seven years. How do our chances change once we are fully vaccinated from COVID yet new variants emerge? Christian Yates, a Senior Lecturer in Mathematical Biology, University of…
Europe No. 1 Holiday spot for US Travelers Since Covid-19 but where can Brits go on holiday?
🧳SPECIAL TRAVEL REPORT
For the first time since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, more US travellers are heading to Europe than any other destination. But depending on individual US state COVID regulations, British travellers and…