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I think GP meant not noticed any such listings in the last 12 months, not that they were advertising a post with a duration less than a year.
I didn't think he was advertising, but I did misinterpret it as him saying only shorter term contracts were available outside IR35.
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Are you sure about that? My understanding was that the role is made redundant, not the person; that you can't hire someone else to do what a made-redundant person was just doing (of course it pretty much happens, but on paper/in theory it needs to be different). I don't really see how it makes sense for both to be true. And in your scenario, wouldn't voluntary redundancy get really weird? 'Denied - because you're qua…
When a role is made redundant (in the UK) an employer has a series of steps they have to make. One of which is, if there is another role the employee could do then they have to be offered it. They can refuse of course. In your voluntary redundancy scenario the employee is waving their rights...voluntarily.
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I haven’t seen any company that will take contractors outside of IR35 at least in London for more than a year now. The risk falls completely on the company these days. IR35 is a very nasty piece of legislation it’s difficult to even hire remote contractors outside of the UK with it without going through an established firm.
Shorter than a year suits me. My goal with contracting is to have time off between contracts to have more energy and time to bootstrap some business ideas. It is a shame this legislation passed, I understand the concern about hidden employees/tax dodging but it seems they overshot a bit.
If HMRC catches you in violation of IR35 they can open the book and inspect any contracts over the past 10 years and retroactively penalize you. And by you I mean the “employer” in this case as in the company that hired you under contract.
No one is taking the risk today.
I once worked for Amazon as a contractor with Insight Global. While it wasn't a bad gig, the culture wasn't a fit so I left. Since then (almost a year), every week I have been mailed a return box for the equipment that I have already returned. I tried telling my former boss but the boxes keep coming. How much money have they wasted mailing me return boxes months on end for no reason?