employment status: development
The Inland Revenue has been investigating the employment status of the flying Instructors at my club and has today sent me a letter stating its conclusions.
Instructors at my club are compelled to be self-employed. Of course, they exercise none of the freedoms of those who are truly self-employed and instead are treated as employees....but employees who enjoy none of the benefits associated with that status. Many of you will recognise the scenario.
Anyway, the Revenue has decided that we are, in fact, employees and should be treated as such. This decision may have implications for many clubs nation-wide. It may affect YOU.
I haven't been in to work today, so I don't know whether the boss intends to contest the decision. I do know that relatively few decisions are contested.
Quite what the ramifications will be, I don't yet know, but my mind is racing.