The turbulence of employment status in the gig economy

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Charlotte Allery, employment solicitor in the tech sector at law firm Coffin Mew runs through the impact of recent cases on employment status in the age of the gig economy

According to government research released in February this year, 4.4 per cent of the population worked in the gig economy in the previous 12 months, equating to a whopping 2.8 million people. To...

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