EAT: substitution clause aimed to avoid holiday pay

A housing company has lost their appeal at an Employment Appeals Tribunal after the court upheld a previous ruling which stated that the contracts of two bricklayers were “a sham”.

The original case took place nine months ago, and centred on the use of substitution clauses in contracts.

Redrow Homes (Yorkshire Ltd) required the two workers to sign contracts under the role of ‘self-employed bricklayers’. A clause within the contract acted to allow these workers to sen... (163 more words)

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