There are enormous benefits in employing freelancers in the creative industries. Freelancers regularly provide a flexible and diverse pool of talent, offering benefits over the traditional employment model. Similarly, it’s becoming an increasingly popular way for individuals to work enabling them to choose when and where they work.

Engaging freelancers and working as a freelancer is not without risks. Simply labelling an individual as self-employed, is not enough to remove an individual’s statutory employment rights. The status of an individual is a question of fact. Following the much publicised Deliveroo and Uber rulings and the rise in the number of individuals working as freelancers, we look at the so-called ‘gig economy’ and some of the key employment law and commercial issues to take into consideration:

The pros and cons of self-employed status and contracting through a personal service company

Determining true employment status and the risks involved in getting it wrong

Big changes on the horizon – the responsibility of how contractors should be taxed is moving from individuals to businesses

Protecting proprietary information

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