Employee Status – Supreme Court Dismisses Employer’s Appeal in Pimlico Plumbers Case

In the latest string of recent cases considering employment status, the Supreme Court has decided that a plumber who brought a case against his former employer was in fact a “worker” and should therefore be entitled to holiday pay and other basic workers’ rights despite the fact that he had signed an agreement with the company describing himself as self-employed, and filing tax returns to this effect. However, this judgement does not lay down any new principles around employee status.

There were two key issues that the Supreme Court had to consider;

1. Whether the Tribunal had been right to say that the claimant was obliged to carry out work personally
2. Whether the Tribunal had correctly analysed the facts in deciding that the company was not a client or customer of a business operated by the plumber.

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