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Liability Risk and Insurance

Labour-only subcontractors

Labour-only subcontractors in the building industry are ‘workers’ under the protection of the Working Time Regulations 1998. Such individuals had undertaken to personally perform services, even though the contract allowed that the services could be performed by some other person.

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