Re: FN-FORUM: Client making me employee without notice

date posted 24th November 2005 11:22

call yu tax office , if 80% of your income is from this one source they
may well have no choce however you have to be asked! all sounds odd and
strange not to say weird!


> Hi,
>
> Slightly strange situation: I work for a research organisation spread
> across several European countries. I get paid through the contact in the
> UK, who works at a university in London.
>
> When paying my most recent invoice the university has made me an
> employee - they've given me an employee number and have taken tax and NI
> payments off the amount owed to me.
>
> My contact has discovered that the university has made a load of changes
> to their payment system (including giving it all over to their HR
> department) without notifying anyone - she didn't know it had changed
> until this came up. Apparently because I don't have a company number,
> I'm therefore an employee so they've put me in their system.
>
> I'm obviously rather irritated about this I'm not an employee, I haven't
> signed anything saying I am, and it makes my tax return more awkward.
> There hasn't been any problem getting the other invoices paid in the
> past.
>
> So: does anyone have any employment advice / legal wording I can start
> throwing around? I've complained to my contact (who is generally very
> good at sorting things out) but she's hitting a brick wall with the HR
> department. I've been made an employee without signing anything, which
> presumably breaks some sort of rule as I don't have an employment
> contract with the university.
>
> Any help gratefully received!
>
> Paul
>
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