ESM0500 - Guide to determining status - overview: contents

This part of the manual is aimed at compliance staff and others who require knowledge of how to determine the status of a worker.

The guidance included in this part is listed in the following table of contents.

1. ESM0501

   Importance of fact finding
2. ESM0502

   Fact finding techniques
3. ESM0503

   Engager’s business
4. ESM0504

   Nature of the job
5. ESM0505

   Engagement of the worker
6. ESM0506

   Contracts
7. ESM0507

   Importance of a written contract
8. ESM0508

   Oral Contract
9. ESM0509

   Contracts - are the terms genuine?
10. ESM0510

    Contracts – getting the true terms
11. ESM0511

    Contracts – what are the differences?
12. ESM0512

    Establishing the reasons for differences
13. ESM0513

    How do you know if there is a contract of service?
14. ESM0514

    In business on own account test
15. ESM0515

    Relevant factors
16. ESM0516

    Control - overview
17. ESM0517

    Relative importance of control
18. ESM0518

    Right of control
19. ESM0519

    Control – what, where, when and how
20. ESM0520

    Control over what the worker does
21. ESM0521

    Control over what is done - examples
22. ESM0522

    Control over where the work is done
23. ESM0523

    Control over where the work is done - examples
24. ESM0524

    Control over when the work is done
25. ESM0525

    Control over when the work is done - examples
26. ESM0526

    Control over how the work is done
27. ESM0527

    Control over how the work is done - examples
28. ESM0528

    Control over experts
29. ESM0529

    Control exercisable by various means
30. ESM0530

    Personal Service
31. ESM0531

    The requirement for personal service
32. ESM0532

    An obligation to provide a substitute
33. ESM0533

    Right of substitution
34. ESM0534

    The obligation/right to send a substitute must be genuine
35. ESM0535

    Is the right of substitution genuine?
36. ESM0536

    The weight to be given to a genuine right of substitution
37. ESM0537

    Disproving a right of substitution
38. ESM0538

    Ignoring a claimed right of substitution
39. ESM0539

    Engaging Helpers
40. ESM0540

    Provision of Equipment
41. ESM0541

    Financial Risk
42. ESM0542

    Basis of Payment
43. ESM0543

    Mutuality of Obligation
44. ESM0544

    Sick pay, pension etc
45. ESM0545

    Part and Parcel of the Organisation
46. ESM0546

    Right to terminate a contract
47. ESM0547

    Opportunity to profit from sound management
48. ESM0548

    Length of Engagement
49. ESM0549

    Personal Factors
50. ESM0550

    Personal Factors (Lorimer case)
51. ESM0551

    Personal Factors (effect of Lorimer on short-term engagements)
52. ESM0552

    Personal Factors (effect of Lorimer on relatively long-term part-time engagements
53. ESM0553

    Regularly working for one engager
54. ESM0554

    Intention of the parties
55. ESM0555

    Exclusive services
56. ESM0556

    Picture painting
57. ESM0557

    What to do in disputed cases?
58. ESM0558

    Fact finding/Evidence gathering