Unlocking Employment Law

4Employment status

Aims and Objectives

After reading this chapter you should be able to:

• ■ Understand the basic character of employment
• ■ Understand the limitations of the statutory definition
• ■ Understand the differences between an employee and an independent contractor
• ■ Understand the purposes of distinguishing between employees and independent contractors (the self-employed)
• ■ Understand the tests for establishing whether someone is an employee or not
• ■ Understand those types of situations where work is atypical and the tests do not easily apply
• ■ Distinguish between employees and independent contractors
• ■ Assess the impact of the distinction on the individual and the person hiring their service
• ■ Critically analyse the concepts of employment, ...