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This wasn't a "gig" economy case. Like Uber is. But "Gig" simply is the new term for casual work, trying to make it sound modern and exciting. Aka zero hours work. Only in reality it's often not casual in practice- it's just a method, often legally ineffective for employment rights, to engage workers without the employer accounting for income tax and NI and seeking to avoid statutory rights. What PP' Mullins still doesn't recognise is that self-employment is a tax status. And as the Supreme Court made clear here, just as they had in Clyde & Co v Winkelhoff, there are those "true" self-employed working for their own clients and business. And those like in PP, who work for another's business. In that situation, and where they're contractually obliged to give personal service, they'll be workers.

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