Opt out and referees?

[thunderlizard]

IR35 angle (in absence of Denny)

The end client doing reference checking is not wise, this is an indicator of being treated like a member of staff and that is nad juju IR35 wise.

Surely that's not true (unless 'nad juju' means 'has no impact on', which it may do for all I know). If you're checking personal rather than company credentials, that's a personal service pointer regardless of who makes the phone calls. Anyway, who does the reference-gathering when your agency recruits a permanent staff member for a client?


I hope your not one of those agents who points out IR35 things when it suits you, and then insists on a contract where it's cripplingly hard for the contractor to bring in other staff, or do other projects for other clients at the same time, and has to put his hand up if he wants to go to the toilet.