Freelancers should brace for more late payments in 2025 as the hiring surge risks payment delays. Here’s what to do about it Nearly half (45%) of UK businesses plan to hire more freelancers this year, as one in four UK workers are now considering going freelance for greater flexibility and to pay for higher bills. While that sounds promising, […]

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Labour has positioned itself as the “party of the self-employed”. Yet, will the party now settling into No. 10 get it right this time when it comes to worker status and family-friendly rights for the self-employed? Labour says in black and white in its paper Labour’s Plan to Make Work Pay: Delivering A New Deal […]

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OPINION We take a tongue-in-cheek look at the pros and cons of political betting and if freelancers could have an upper hand down the bookies Jon Connell, the founder of The Week and contributor to The Knowledge’s newsletter, touches on the subject of political betting this week. The practice has not exactly caught on by […]

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GUIDE TO FREELANCER PAYMENT TERMS This guide will equip you with the essential tips and payment terms you should understand and use to your advantage each time you create an invoice or bring on a new client As your freelance business and client list grows, so too should your cash flow. But that doesn’t always […]

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Freelancers’ financial situations have been seriously impacted by an increase in late payments during the pandemic with one million UK freelancers being pushed into debt since the pandemic hit, according to a report by IPSE (the Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed) and digital bank, Starling. Over a third (36%) of the self-employed said that instances […]

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Anil Stocker, CEO at MarketFinance, likens the current late-payments plight of UK SMEs as a “three-pronged assault” on SME finances.

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