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Section 1: Guidance overview

Employment status affects everyone who works. Areas such as pay, leave and working conditions can all depend on employment status.

People with different employment statuses have different rights set out in law. The rights are designed to protect individuals. Most of the rights are compulsory, and normally can’t be signed away.

Clarity around individuals’ and employers’ (or engagers - a person or business who engages self-employed individuals for work) rights and responsibilities at work supports empowerment for working people and certainty between competing businesses.

There are 2 separate pieces of guidance tailored for:

• individuals to help them understand their employment status so that they know their rights, can have informed discussions with their employer about them, and can take steps to claim them and have them enforced where necessary
• employers or engagers to help them understand individuals’ employment status so they comply with the law, helping ensure individuals receive the rights they are entitled to, and to avoid unnecessary disputes and associated costs

This detailed guidance aims to help HR professionals, legal professionals and other groups...

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