Andy Chamberlain

Andy is Head of Strategic Policy and Advocacy at the Freelancer & Contractor Services Association (FCSA). He has worked in the contingent labour market policy space for 15 years, with expertise in working trends, employment status and regulation. Andy graduated from the University of Liverpool with an honours degree in Politics, before becoming a Parliamentary Researcher in the House of Commons.

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Pay rates for freelancers are reassuringly up, unlike contractors' short-term confidence in themselves

Our latest confidence index shows contractor daily fees doing well, despite short-term faith in their own ventures dwindling -- IPSE.

13th February, 2024

Can contractors join the cycle to work scheme?

Despite being designed for permies, PSCs can enjoy the scheme, especially with a steer from their accountant.

10th November, 2023 | Successful Contracting

Whoever leads it next, the government needs to stop the IR35 and employment status merry-go-round

Contrary to the business department’s claims to justify its action, now would have been the perfect time to solve the UK’s status crisis.

5th August, 2022

Government must realise, thousands of workers in umbrella companies are employed against their will

The IR35 reform-induced trend of unwilling employment? Like PSLs and holiday pay, ministers owe it to work-seekers to intervene.

29th April, 2022

Covid-19: What HMRC's ‘pay-now clawback later’ contractor dividends policy might look like

IPSE outlines the potential bolt-on to the furlough scheme which government has been told to adopt to help limited company directors.

18th June, 2020 | Coronavirus