The Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 is amended
as follows.

Omit section 145F(3).

Omit section 151(1B).

Omit sections 295 (meaning of employee and related expressions) and 296
(meaning of worker and related expressions) and insert—

“295 Meaning of worker and related expressions

(1)

In this Act—

(a)

“worker” and “employee” both mean an individual who—

(i)

seeks to be engaged by another to provide labour,

(ii)

is engaged by another to provide labour, or

(iii)

where the employment has ceased, was engaged by
another to provide labour,

and is not, in the provision of that labour, genuinely operating
a business on his or her own account;

(b)

an “employer” in relation to a worker or employee is—

(i)

every person or entity who engages or engaged the
worker or employee, and

(ii)

every person or entity who substantially determines
terms on which the worker or employee is engaged at
any material time;

(c)

“employed” and “employment” mean engaged as an “employee”
or as a “worker” under paragraph (a) above;

(d)

“contract of employment” means a contract, however described,
whereby an individual undertakes to do or perform any labour,
work or services for another party to the contract whose status
is not by virtue of the contract that of a client or customer of
any profession or business undertaking carried on by the
individual, and  any reference to the contract of an employee
or a worker shall be construed accordingly.

(2)

It is for a person who is claimed to be the employer and contests that
claim to show in any legal proceedings that— 

(a)

he or she is not the employer, or 

(b)

the person providing the labour is not an employee, a worker,
employed, or in employment, as the case may be.

(3)

For the avoidance of doubt, the foregoing provisions apply to
employment for the purposes of a government department, except for
members of the armed forces.

(4)

For the avoidance of doubt, an entitlement on the part of a person to
substitute the labour of another for his or her own labour shall be
ignored in determining whether or he or she is a worker or employee.

(5)

For the avoidance of doubt, where a worker or employee provides
labour through a personal service company the employer is the third
party for whom the labour is performed.

(6)

A “personal service company” means a company— 

(a)

in which the worker or employee is a director, or a substantial
shareholding is held by the worker or employee, by himself
or herself or by or with a member of the family of the worker
or employee, or by or with a third party for whom the labour
is or was performed, or a nominee or nominees of such a third
party; and

(b)

which has contracted with the worker or employee to provide
his or her labour to a third party or parties nominated by the
company; and

(c)

in relation to which the terms and conditions on which the
worker or employee is or was engaged to perform the labour
are or were substantially determined by any third party for
whom the labour is or was to be performed, by itself or jointly
with another person or entity; and

(d)

in which the status of any third party for whom the labour is
or was to be performed is not in practice that of a client or
customer of the profession or business undertaking carried on
by the worker or employee.

(7)

The Secretary of State may by regulations designate as “workers” other
persons engaged in work, and designate as “employers” other entities
engaged in the provision of work, after consultation with organisations
which appear to the Secretary of State to represent such persons and
entities and any such regulations must be made by statutory instrument
which is subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either
House of Parliament.

(8)

This section has effect subject to sections 68(4), 116B(10) and 235.”

The Employment Rights Act 1996 is amended as follows.

This Act extends to England and Wales and Scotland. 

This Act comes into force at the end of the period of three months beginning
with the day on which it is passed.

This Act may be cited as the Status of Workers Act 2024.