New Pimlico Plumbers ruling a “mammoth” victory for UK workers’ rights

Financial costs of wrongly denying worker status are “now potentially very high indeed”, says silk

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Employers, including gig-economy firms and umbrella companies, could now face significant costs following a “mammoth” Court of Appeal decision that protects workers’ rights to paid annual leave.