A source has told The Freelance Informer how some umbrella companies could still be systematically withholding and pocketing holiday pay from contractors and temp workers, potentially affecting thousands, especially supply teachers. However, if existing and former umbrella workers claim unused holiday pay they could be quids in by Christmas, said the source. How the Scheme […]

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Government’s holiday pay consultation “step in the right direction” but confusion likely to remain, say umbrella company experts A government consultation on how holiday pay entitlement should be calculated for temporary, part-year and zero-hours workers, has opened and will run between 12 January to 9 March. The consultation was spurred on by a Supreme Court judgment […]

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