Covid and work: looking to the future

William Downing and Dominic Jones join the firm’s partnership to strengthen and grow Mills & Reeve’s recently opened office in Oxford.

The Government published the latest quarterly and annual statistics last month. We explore what they reveal about the volume of claims and levels of compensation.

Most individuals who work can bring themselves within the legal definition of "worker" in order to qualify for important legal rights like paid holidays and the National Minimum Wage. The dividing line between workers in this strict legal sense and self-employed individuals can be hard to draw, and there have been many legal disputes about this in recent years.

We have now had over a year’s worth of employment status litigation, following the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in February 2021. While there is some degree of continuity, its influence can be detected in a number of recent decisions