When is a partner/LLP member not a partner/LLP member? The interface with employment and worker status

Berry, E ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8325-5356, 2017. When is a partner/LLP member not a partner/LLP member? The interface with employment and worker status. Industrial Law Journal. ISSN 0305-9332

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Abstract

The answer to the question of whether a partner can also simultaneously be an employee of his partnership has long been considered to be settled law. However, the introduction of limited liability partnerships (LLPs) in 2001 has not only raised the new question of whether LLP members can also be employees but has, in doing so, reopened the question of the employment status of partners, questions which now need to be viewed in the context of the widespread practice of having both equity and other types of partner/member. Furthermore, with much legislation now giving rights to ‘workers’ rather than employees, the question has arisen of whether LLP members or partners can also simultaneously be workers, regardless of whether they can also be employees. The answers to these questions go to the very heart of what the law regards as an employer–employee or firm–worker relationship, yet recent legislation and jurisprudence have failed to clarify the legal position. This article explores the employee and worker status of partners and LLP members, and the consequences both for them and for the development of the law.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	Industrial Law Journal
Creators:	Berry, E.
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Date:	13 February 2017
ISSN:	0305-9332
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1093/indlaw/dww037 DOI
Divisions:	Schools > Nottingham Law School
Record created by:	Jonathan Gallacher
Date Added:	27 Mar 2017 14:46
Last Modified:	13 Feb 2019 03:00
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/30458

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