Employment status

In employment law a person’s employment status helps determine:

A person may have a different employment status in tax law.

The main types of employment status are:

A person is generally classed as a ‘worker’ if:

they have a contract or other arrangement to do work or services personally for a reward (a contract can be written or unwritten)
their reward is for money or a benefit in kind, for example the promise of a contract or future work
they only have a limited right to send someone else to do the work (subcontract)
their employer has to have work for them to do as long as the contract or arrangement lasts
they are not doing the work as part of their own limited company in an arrangement where the ‘employer’ is actually a customer or client

Workers are entitled to certain employment rights, including:

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