Please note that this blog article is the personal opinion of the author (Steven Proud) and does not necessarily reflect the views of Parasol.
A couple of weeks ago I (Steven Proud) posted a blog under the title ‘Can we stick to the facts please?’
The point I was trying to make in the blog was that a number of commentators within our industry were using AWR as an opportunity to make sweeping comments which aren’t substantiated but were based on hearsay and conjecture. Vested interests come in to play here too. We are a leading umbrella company so of course we have a vested interest in all things AWR and we’ve always been completely transparent about this. I’m happy to report that since 1st October it’s been largely business as usual here and at our sister company, ClearSky Accounting, so the two years hard work in the run up seem to have paid off.
In the blog I used an unattributed quote taken from a discussion we took part in in The Guardian in September. I wrote:
“Umbrella companies will find things sticky.”
Jon Norris, from Crunch Accounting and Freelance Advisor, the author of the quote has been in touch with me as that is not what he said. Jon said: “It’s worth noting the Agency Workers Regulations coming into force next month will probably make things for Umbrella Company users a little shaky for a while.”
Please copy and paste the following link into your browser if you would like to read more about the quote so you can see its context http://bit.ly/qHSinZ.
So Jon is right, I misquoted him and apologies to Jon for that. I have now invited Jon to write a post for this blog himself should he wish to do so and we’d be delighted to hear Crunch Accountings point of view.
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