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Liability Risk and Insurance

Recruitment agencies may pay too much for EL

Hiscox has warned that recruitment agencies may be paying too much for employers’ liability insurance. According to Hiscox, the recent Court of Appeal test case ruling in Muscat v Cable & Wireless upheld that an ‘implied’ employment relationship exists between a contract worker and the company he/she is contracted to.

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