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Contractor life insurance cover – policy options for limited company contractors
Limited contractors can protect their families with a life insurance policy funded by their business
�the worst should happen. Prior to starting their contracting career when in permanent employment, many contrac�
Category: Articles: Contractor Life Insurance | Mon, 13 Dec 2021

Relevant Life insurance plans - 9 key facts for contractors
Your company can pay for your life insurance, saving you thousands in tax relief on all the premiums. Switching is easy. Here's how.
�When you move to contracting, any life insurance benefits previously paid by y�
Category: Articles: Contractor Life Insurance | Sat, 03 Jun 2023

Renewing a contractors contract
Contractors do not have to renew their contract when it ends, so a client wanting to keep their good contractors should start negotiating early.
�from spending more than a certain period of time contracting for that client, or from having more than a certa� �obligation to accept a renewal or extension of a contract. Equally, clients do not have to offer the contra�
Category: Articles: Hiring Contractors | Tue, 10 Nov 2009

Terminating a contractor
All contractor contracts finish eventually, but there may be reasons why a client wishes to end a contract early, before the contracted end-date.
�Contractor contracts have a start date, which is when the contractor b� �t if the two parties have not agreed to renew the contract. However, there may be reasons why a client wants�
Category: Articles: Hiring Contractors | Tue, 17 Nov 2009

Hiring a contractor – rates you should expect to pay
Rates vary hugely across the contracting sector and can depend on many variables. How can clients judge what rates they should pay contractors?
�rs to be worked, and any hours in excess of those contracted must be approved before the contractor works them� �. But the client and contractor must agree in the contract the number of hours to be worked, and any hours i�
Category: Articles: Hiring Contractors | Tue, 01 Sept 2009

Hiring a contractor directly without using an agency
Clients must understand the big differences between hiring contractors and recruiting employees, says Emma Brierley of recruiter Xchangeteam
�ctors, by their very nature, are being engaged on contracts on an ongoing basis. This means that the client’s� �soon as possible. This means negotiation of both contract rates and contracts , and the hard part in larger�
Category: Articles: Hiring Contractors | Tue, 15 Sept 2009

Reading and evaluating a contractor CVs
Clients used to recruiting permanent employees will find contractor CVs break lots of CV ‘rules’, but that’s because contractors are not employees.
�the contractor has successfully completed similar contracts for other clients If the contractor has made a go� �uiting could receive hundreds of CVs for a single contract, and will typically devote, at most, ten seconds�
Category: Articles: Hiring Contractors | Tue, 22 Sept 2009

How firms should conduct contractor interviews
Interviewing a contractor is not like an interview to recruit a permanent employee, it is more like receiving a sales pitch from a new supplier.
�cision Contractors that have long term successful contracting careers will also have good selling skills in edi� �red, knowing they have an hour at most to win the contract. In that time, a client has to make a decision as�
Category: Articles: Hiring Contractors | Tue, 29 Sept 2009

Agency Workers Regulations – AWR risks for contractors, clients and agencies
Contractors, clients and agencies all face, and have to manage, risks since the Agency Workers Regulations come into force on 1 October 2011.
�ensure they do not have an adverse impact on the contracting supply chain. Clients, especially those with larg� �use fewer contractors, or to move operations, and contracts, outside the UK. The main AWR risks facing contra�
Category: Articles: Agency Workers Regulations | Wed, 27 Jul 2011

Contracting in a post-Brexit Europe: key points for contractors
Brexit negotiations will determine the fate of contractors trading in the EU, although it’s not all doom and gloom, says CXC Global’s Charles Daw.
�that there is no way of knowing how the overseas contracting landscape might change in the immediate aftermath� �specific to the EU.” Will it be harder to source contracts? There is less certainty surrounding the ease of� �n the build-up to the EU referendum was that each contract with clients in the EU would require a surcharge�
Category: Articles: Contracting Overseas | Mon, 18 Jul 2016