HR asking for VDU questionnaire, passport & utility bill. IR35 issues ?

[northernladuk]

I'm glad you are starting to see that acting like an employee makes you a disguised permie.

Lol. Now then TF. You're being naughty and grumpy now.

[TheFaQQer]

Well I did consider it, but didn't really want to get into protracted debate, but suffice to say as a perm consultant seconded to a major pub sec client, yes I have needed to provide these details. This despite the consultancy being on the pub sec client PSL.

If they do it for everyone, then it's not a differentiating factor; if they only do it for employees but not for suppliers, then it is a pointer towards being an employee.

[tractor]

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If they do it for everyone, then it's not a differentiating factor; if they only do it for employees but not for suppliers, then it is it could be a pointer towards being an employee.

FTFY

[northernladuk]

Better still would it not be better to get a clause drafted up along the lines of your company will confirm that all employees provided to the client will have had their eligibility to work in the checked and will accept responsibility should they not fulfil their obligations.

When HR ask for a passport just point them at the contract.

[TheFaQQer]

Better still would it not be better to get a clause drafted up along the lines of your company will confirm that all employees provided to the client will have had their eligibility to work in the checked and will accept responsibility should they not fulfil their obligations.

When HR ask for a passport just point them at the contract.

Yes - that would be a very good way to do it.

[speling bee]

Better still would it not be better to get a clause drafted up along the lines of your company will confirm that all employees provided to the client will have had their eligibility to work in the checked and will accept responsibility should they not fulfil their obligations.

When HR ask for a passport just point them at the contract.

Send them your Ltd company reg certificate and VAT reg certificate.

[TheFaQQer]

But you aren't a plumber and you aren't fixing his loo. It's a stupid analogy. You don't get your plumber to look at your customer/client data and ask him to work on your regulated computer systems.

The client request has nothing to do with data access, it's about whether the employee has the right to work in the UK. What about the analogy of engaging consultants via a different consultancy such as Accenture - do they check their passports, or do they assume (or contract) that the supplier has done the validation?

If you are through an agency then it isn't the client that's asking its the pimp.

Apart from in this case, where it's not the agency (who as per the first post have already seen the passport), it's the HR team at the client.