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Julia Kermode

Empowering Agency Workers

A weekly Business podcast featuring Julia Kermode
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Julia Kermode

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Understanding your pay as a temporary worker can be difficult at the best of times, let alone when you are paid via an umbrella company.  There can be confusion over assignment rate vs your gross pay, plus confusion over employers NICs and othe
A recent tribunal case is set to have a massive impact on how holiday is calculated for all workers who's hours vary, and this of course includes temporary workers.  The case involves Mrs Brazel who was a visiting music tutor at Harpur Trust sc
All workers in the UK have a statutory right to 5.6 weeks paid holiday per year, and as a temporary worker it's doubly important to make sure you receive your right.  So we're chatting to legal expert and friend of the show Rebecca Seeley-Harri
Temporary workers and contractors are often required to choose an umbrella from a preferred supplier list (PSL) operated by their recruitment agency.  Some workers feel this restricts their choice, however many recruitment firms operate PSLs th
Temporary workers and contractors are often required to choose an umbrella from a preferred supplier list (PSL) operated by their recruitment agency.  Today we're talking to Paul Sheraton, an IT contractor who recently launched an official peti
"Rhetoric is just hot air if you don't translate what you're saying into action."  In the second of a two-part special, we're continuing our chat with Emma Freivogel of Radical Recruit about truly inclusive recruitment.We all know that people
“Everyone wants to work, I don’t know anyone that wants to spend a life in poverty.”  In the first of a two-part special, we chat to Emma Freivogel of Radical Recruit about truly inclusive recruitment.  She works with radicals, people who have
Temporary workers and contractors will often be required to be paid via an umbrella company and often recruitment agencies operate a preferred supplier list (PSL) of umbrella companies that their worker can choose from.  In this episode, IWORK'
Today we’re honoured to talk to two of the lead creators of the Loan Charge settlement proposal, Sarah Gabbai, tax lawyer at McDermott Will & Emery; and Keith Gordon, tax barrister at Temple Tax Chambers.  The Loan Charge is a piece of legislat
The recruitment sector pays salaries to millions of temporary workers and contractors, and this volume of money makes it a target for potential tax evasion.  In 2017 new legislation was introduced, the Criminal Finances Act, which makes failing
Looking the part is helpful when it comes to getting a job, but what if your circumstances prevent you from having anything suitable to wear for an interview?  This happens to more people than you might imagine, and fortunately there are suppor
Warning, this episode might make you angry!  The pandemic disproportionately affected disabled people – 60% of people who died of COVID were disabled in some way.  Whilst this statistic is outside our control, inclusion is within our control. 
Many temporary and agency workers are financially excluded, an issue that is not well known so we’re highlighting it in today’s episode.  So what exactly is it, and why does it matter?  To help answer these questions, we’re talking to Matt Oldh
Following the off-payroll legislation that came into effect in April 2021, there has been an increase in the use of Statements of Work as a mechanism to engage contractors, and much talk about whether this ‘new’ type of contract is valid or not
The TUC recently proposed that umbrella companies should be banned and published an accompanying report detailing their research and analysis of the umbrella sector.  Today we’re chatting with Matthew Creagh, TUC policy officer, about what led
This podcast builds on the earlier podcast done with Paul Chamberlain of JMW Solicitors looking at holiday for agency workers.  Today we are joined by Lewina Farrell, a specialist legal advisor to the recruitment sector, to specifically look at
Today we are delighted to chat to Connor Heaney, MD of CXC EMEA, about the international opportunities for temporary workers and contractors currently.  Connor is very positive about the market currently from a workers perspective, and there ar
This is the second of our two-part special chatting about the unregulated umbrella sector with industry expert Crawford Temple.  We rejoin the conversation discussing the lack of enforcement in the sector and the detrimental impact this is havi
There have been many calls for the umbrella sector to be regulated by the government, so we chat to industry expert Crawford Temple to find out his thoughts on the subject.  His answer is very interesting: implement a system similar to financia
No doubt you will have heard about the Uber case, and several others that have cropped up recently in the gig economy.  These all centre around the common theme of workers disputing their employment status and seeking certain statutory rights. 
It's that time of year when many of us are heading off for a holiday, but do you know what your statutory rights are in relation to paid holiday?  You might not think you get any!  Or you might be missing out because you haven't been claiming i
It isn’t long before the summer holidays will be upon us, we got thinking about how on earth young people (school / college / university leavers) could get started on their first ever job search.  It’s a familiar quandary because employers ofte
Today we’re talking to Keith Rosser who is a man on a mission to protect workers from the increasingly complex scams that deliberately target vulnerable job seekers.  He is an long standing friend of the show, and we caught up with him to find
We know that the pandemic has caused an increasing number of people to enter the jobs market unexpectedly, and we also know how overwhelming it can be to suddenly find yourself needing to find work.  For that reason we chatted to Maxine Hart fr
When searching for a job, whether it’s your perfect career move or a temporary stop-gap, it’s likely you will face rejection at some point as all the best candidates do.  The current jobs market is very competitive meaning that rejection is eve
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