Update No.8 - Judge defends nuclear option! Thursday AM

Mr Justice Burton said that if the IR35 laws were allowed to stand it would mean that where the Inland Revenue decided that employment tests applied so that a worker was caught by IR35 then, Mr Justice Burton said, that the worker would have a very good case to claim employment rights against the client.

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The judge who is also an authority on employment law and active in employment tribunals indicated that he didn’t see why, in some cases, the employees of large service providers should not be treated as employees of their client.