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Supreme Court missed huge opportunity to drag law into 21st Century with Pimlico Plumbers’ ruling

13 June 201813 June 2018 Columns, Opinion Charlie Mullins 0 Comments

I’m supposed to say I’m disappointed that the Supreme Court has ruled against Pimlico Plumbers, by ruling that plumber, Gary Smith, was a worker, rather than the self-employed contractor we all knew he was when he was carrying out work for my company.

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