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Every piece with the primary material it rests on: statutes, judgments, statistical releases and company filings, named and linked.
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The Three-Part Test That Rewrote California
California Supreme Court ruled in Dynamex Operations West, Inc. v. Superior Court · Assembly Bill 5 · Proposition 22
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The Law the Platforms Bought Back
passed the state legislature · unconstitutional in its entirety
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IR35 and the Twenty-Five Years Nobody Settled It
HMRC won fewer than a handful of IR35 cases in the courts each year
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False Self-Employment Has a German Word for a Reason
Primary material named in the piece
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The Count
Twelve Years When Nobody Counted
Current Population Survey · ABC test in Dynamex Operations West v. Superior Court in 2018
The Count
Gig, Contingent, Own-Account, Self-Employed: Not Synonyms
contingent worker · Eurostat labour force survey framework · UK Supreme Court ruled in 2021 · ABC test
Organising
Organising
The Cleaners Who Started Their Own Union
the legal question of who bears the obligations of employment · Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992
Organising
A Lobby Group Built Around One Tax Rule
estimates of the UK's self-employed population · the off-payroll rules
Coworking
Before Coworking, There Was the Serviced Office
marketing themselves as Regus's opposite · the identity they offer their members
The Trade
Two Platforms Merged and Called the Result Something New
The S-1 registration statement · Bureau of Labor Statistics Contingent Worker Supplement
Statute, judgment, statistical release and prospectus — one piece built on each.
Traces IR35 from its introduction in the Finance Act 2000 through the 2017 public-sector and 2021 private-sector off-payroll reforms, naming the intermediary rules and the employment status factors HMRC applies.
The UK Supreme Court's unanimous 2021 judgment in Uber BV v Aslam did not just settle one dispute about minimum wage — it rewrote the ground rules for how British courts read platform contracts.
When the Bureau of Labor Statistics stopped running its Contingent Worker Supplement in 2005, the silence it left behind shaped a decade of policy argument as surely as any figure it might have published.
WeWork invented a metric to justify its price, and the market took eighteen months to stop believing it
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