If agencies respond to the currently rather opaque ‘deemed employer’ plan by choosing to take their payroll in-house, then the employment status of contractors would soon be replaced with “worker” ...

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Interestingly, Mr Sunak's plans to cut benefits to disabled people and require them to prepare for work faced legal challenges in the high courts - with a judge ruling ministers failed to admit ...

In the run-up to the Second World War, plans for limited conscription applying to single men aged between 20 and 22 were given parliamentary approval in the Military Training Act in May 1939.