A year after the BBC's Moneybox revealed the first FCSA umbrella company dishonestly withholding contractors' holiday pay, Contractor Voice has lodged another claim against one of the UK's major umbrella corporations. Membership in groups such as the FCSA and Professional Passport are supposed to promote those umbrellas that can be trusted for their high standards in an uncontrolled business,...

Contractor Voice's primary focus has been on ensuring that contractors are paid properly and legally in relation to Holiday Pay, revealing the methods in which certain umbrellas have attempted to avoid paying, as outlined on our Holiday Pay page. This was first revealed by the BBC Radio 4 Moneybox programme in March last year, when FCSA umbrellas were the subject; you can listen to it on our...

Contractor Voice only exposes misbehaviour when there is proof to back it up. It now has the corroborated evidence of several former employees of yet another FCSA umbrella company, Giant, revealing that Giant had systems, procedures, policies, and training explicitly designed to withhold pay from contractors who were legally entitled to it, with the clear intention of profiting financially from...

Mr Smith's legal battle was long and complex, and while many of the concerns are not relevant to umbrella employees, the Court of Appeal's decisions on Holiday Pay most emphatically are. Contractor Voice thinks that their efforts will pave the road for thousands of contractors to obtain the justice and recompense that they are due.

Contractor Voice will reveal misbehaviour only if there is proof to back it up. It now has the corroborated evidence of several former Giant employees, revealing that Giant had systems, procedures, policies, and training explicitly designed to FCSA withhold holiday pay from legally entitled contractors, with the clear intention of profiting financially from its misconduct. 

MPs have written an open letter to a key trade organisation outlining serious concerns about umbrella businesses and those who utilise them. The All-Party Parliamentary Loan Charge and Taxpayer Fairness Group (APPG) contacted Chris Bryce, CEO of the FCSA, regarding holiday pay and cyber-attacks on umbrella firms. The FCSA is a membership group that provides compliance accreditation to umbrella...

Regular readers and supporters will be aware of Contractor Voices' campaign to rid the sector of umbrellas that have failed to pay legally due Holiday Pay and to expose those umbrellas when evidence exists. The evidence obtained in relation to Giant intentionally FCSA withholding Holiday Pay and pocketing it, to the detriment of the contractors, is likely the tsunami of all Holiday Pay...

The Association promotes tax and employment regulatory compliance throughout the extended temporary labor market supply chain and also provides compliance accreditation to umbrella firms. The FCSA issued a warning regarding the problem of umbrella company clones in September 2021, after discovering that at least ten of the umbrella businesses in its membership had fallen prey to the practice.

The Association promotes tax and employment regulatory compliance throughout the extended temporary labor market supply chain and also provides compliance accreditation to umbrella firms. The FCSA issued a warning regarding the problem of umbrella company clones in September 2021, after discovering that at least ten of the umbrella businesses in its membership had fallen prey to the practice.

Contractor Voice, like the rest of the industry, is perplexed as to why umbrella firm Advance was so hostile to the revised intended wording of the Code. Do they not agree that the agency-paid holiday was never supposed to be held under an FCSA umbrella company, if not paid to contractors? Will it use its interpretation of the WTR to justify its threatened legal action? Perhaps they genuinely...