Training from client

[ContractorBanking]

Currently on client site and they're insisting I go on a 2-day course, for which they will pay for.

What's the best way to tackle this from IR35 perspective?

Book and pay for the course myself and expense it to the client?

Suggestions welcome.

[northernladuk]

Some details about what the course is might help us..... Internal or external course, softskills or out of the box tech skills and so on.

I'd worry that you are being treated like an employee so you've already got a problem irrespective of who's paying for this course.

[BrilloPad]

Go on the course, be grateful, and stop whining.

HTH

[radish2008]

Some details about what the course is might help us..... Internal or external course, softskills or out of the box tech skills and so on.

I'd worry that you are being treated like an employee so you've already got a problem irrespective of who's paying for this course.

I'm not so sure you would have a problem at all. Quite apart from the fact the chances of being investigated and of losing is absolutely tiny quite a lot of companies now, especially financials, will have mandatory courses that need to be done for regulatory and compliance reasons. If they argue that they would prefer you to do the training to complete your contract I see no difference between the two.

[northernladuk]

I'm not so sure you would have a problem at all. Quite apart from the fact the chances of being investigated and of losing is absolutely tiny quite a lot of companies now, especially financials, will have mandatory courses that need to be done for regulatory and compliance reasons. If they argue that they would prefer you to do the training to complete your contract I see no difference between the two.

And you are probably spot on but then we won't have to chance to look at the details of whatever legislation it covers and wax lyrical about how why when it applies, however disconnected from reality it is.

They will have mandatory courses but they often send their guys on new tech courses like Azure admin which a contractor clearly shouldn't be expected to attend on behalf of the client. That's why I think the details of what the course is is key to this discussion. I don't think it does any harm to understand why you shouldn't be going on these courses. Once you've got that then you can decide what the risk is to just go along with it,

[ContractorBanking]

I'm currently a BA and I've been asked if I'd like to additionally accept Product Owner responsibilities for the DMA trading platform.

The course is a Product Owner course, delivered by an external company and is a requirement for the new role.

With this in mind, how best to tackle the training issue?

[northernladuk]

Are they going to issue you a new contract for this or are you just switching roles under the existing one?

I'd probably say revert to what BrilloPad says.