Tackling non-compliance in the umbrella company market consultation: government response

Table of contents

• What are the implications?
• Background

Article summary

Employment news analysis: The government will: (1) legislate to define umbrella companies, to allow for their regulation and to bring them within the remit of the Employment Agency Standards Inspectorate (and subsequently, the Fair Work Agency), through an amendment to the Employment Rights Bill (ERB), and (2) bring forward legislation to move the responsibility to account for PAYE from the umbrella company that employs the worker to the recruitment agency that supplies the worker to the end client, from April 2026.