Have been offered an NHS role but offered an extension in current private sector role

[northernladuk]

FYI - some recommendations from the PCG:

Public Sector Review – Advice for contractors in the public sector

To be honest if you don't do either of the first two steps alone you need kicking out of PCG IMO.

[speling bee]

Mods, any chance one of you could merge this with the pinned public sector contracting thread please and thank you?

[d000hg]

Nobody is saying that they shouldn't review. What we are saying is that they solution that they came up with is fatally flawed.

Anything else we need to spoon-feed to you?

Maybe why you feel entitled to public sector contract work?

[speling bee]

Maybe why you feel entitled to public sector contract work?

Presumably because there is a market for his services with public sector clients.

[v8gaz]

Maybe why you feel entitled to public sector contract work?

I'm not, I do finance, mostly. I avoid public sector as much as possible. However I do believe that contractors working in public sector providing legitimate services as contractually agreed should not be shafted at the misinformed whim of a grandstanding politician, especially as it represents unfair treatment between my small consultancy and the likes of cap.

You really are a bit thick not to understand all of this. Are you sure you're cut out to be a contractor?

[d000hg]

Being shafted on a whim is part of being a contractor

Although back on to a serious thread, how is this actually enforceable? Is it a change in law or only a change in policy?

[speling bee]

Being shafted on a whim is part of being a contractor

Although back on to a serious thread, how is this actually enforceable? Is it a change in law or only a change in policy?

Change of policy enforced contractually I expect.

[IR35FanClub]

13 billion?

I can tell you are a coder. a tester would have said 12.1 billion to see if decimals are accepted.

[centurian]

Being shafted on a whim is part of being a contractor

Although back on to a serious thread, how is this actually enforceable? Is it a change in law or only a change in policy?

Well I wouldn't put it like that, but the point is a valid one. As any business, you have to adjust to a changing client base. Small businesses can't demand that clients act in a way that you want them to. You either accept the changing landscape, or move on to a different client base.

Which is why at one level, I do respect the governments right to tell their own departments how they should engage off-payroll suppliers. They are the customer and they are saying "if you want to do business with us - these are the terms - take it or leave it"

I don't like it one bit - but this is a B2B relationship - and they have a perfectly legal and legitimate right to do it.

[d000hg]

Change of policy enforced contractually I expect.

But how can a contract stipulate what tax is payable? Is that a legal clause - if unfair notice periods, etc, are not then this seems even more 1-sided.

Or perhaps they will simply issue all contracts using PAYE so you don't get the choice? In one way that would be neater but isn't that how it used to be pre-IR35, where employers were responsible if a contractor was deemed an employee?