How contractor recruitment agencies appear to be caught between two competing pieces of legislation, and what navigating the push-pull needs to involve.

It might be legislation to address umbrella companies, but JSL means it’s agencies that must try to survive and not get wiped out.

A new freelance champion is coming. Here’s three things that need to happen next for it to more than just symbolically lift contracting.

Keeping ‘business’ separate from ‘personal’ is among the main points of the darts pro who’s been disqualified.

APSCo: Contractors’ agencies aren’t set to bear the brunt of everything under the 2026-27 brolly shake-up.

A rethink by end-hirers on how to structure and allocate resources bodes well for IT contractors, says staffing giant Robert Half.

What steps umbrella employees should take to prepare for the new ‘JSL’ legislation (includes some urgent actions if you’re using a tax avoidance scheme).

Replacing like-for-like would be lamentable, even if BritCard is apparently going to be free and seamless technology.

Although the truth isn’t getting in the way of a good LinkedIn post, there are genuine lessons to learn from IT director Ben Wicken v Akita Systems Ltd.

TV host Ant Middleton is among the famous (and not-so-famous) faces falling foul of the Insolvency Service, with disqualification orders in just three cases totalling 16 years.