Annabel Kaye

Annabel Kaye

LDN, UK
Paying freelancers and micropreneurs takes you right into the gig economy. If you don't know what you are doing it can hurt you. From tax to GDPR to workforce rights and copyright - what's your plan?

Annabel Kaye has been running her own business since 1980.   She takes own experience as an employment law and HR consultant and business owner into how to contract and manage your freelancers.

Her experience with trade associations and groups means she can bring a wealth of practical problem solving to your delegates and your event.

She says she always used to get the 'graveyard' spot at events as she is often booked for the compliance slot.   

She will use humour and a razor-sharp understanding of the problems with setting up and maintaining a freelance team to keep your delegates learning and engaged

Described by listeners to BBC Radio 4 when she talked there about GDPR as "like listening to your favourite Auntie give you clear advice", she will help your delegates understand exactly what they need to do to:

  • outsource in a GDPR ready way
  • control copyright
  • implement non-disclosure agreements everyone can understand
  • avoid falling into tax traps
  • control quality and deadlines
  • avoid accidentally creating employment relationships
  • avoid the biggest tax traps caused by managers
  • use agreements to build performance

She speaks to line managers (within your own systems and contracts) or groups of business owners who are paying external teams and wanting to get away from the time sucks, missed deadlines and unexpected bills that all too often go with it.

Her talks can be tailored to specific industries taking the whole cycle from terms of business to paying associate into account.  

Annabel Kaye has been running her own business since 1980.   She takes own experience as an employment law and HR consultant and business owner into how to contract and manage your freelancers.

Her experience with trade associations and groups means she can bring a wealth of practical problem solving to your delegates and your event.

She says she always used to get the 'graveyard' spot at events as she is often booked for the compliance slot.   

She will use humour and a razor-sharp understanding of the problems with setting up and maintaining a freelance team to keep your delegates learning and engaged

Described by listeners to BBC Radio 4 when she talked there about GDPR as "like listening to your favourite Auntie give you clear advice", she will help your delegates understand exactly what they need to do to:

  • outsource in a GDPR ready way
  • control copyright
  • implement non-disclosure agreements everyone can understand
  • avoid falling into tax traps
  • control quality and deadlines
  • avoid accidentally creating employment relationships
  • avoid the biggest tax traps caused by managers
  • use agreements to build performance

She speaks to line managers (within your own systems and contracts) or groups of business owners who are paying external teams and wanting to get away from the time sucks, missed deadlines and unexpected bills that all too often go with it.

Her talks can be tailored to specific industries taking the whole cycle from terms of business to paying associate into account.  

Ready for GDPR compliant outsourcing?

GDPR is tough enough but when you try making it work for paying freelancers and outsourced service providers you will trip over your own documentation if you don't set it up to be lean and mean and work with your business processes.

Are you sure you are ready for this?

If you are paying freelancers or contracting with outsourced service providers you will need to find a way to make GDPR and data confidentiality work without handicapping your business or compromising data...

Educational / InformativeTechnical / SpecificHumorous / Funny

Is HR ready for the gig economy?

Half the workforce will be freelancing by 2030 - or so some say.  What is HR's role in the gig economy?   

Are you being sidelined by managers using the purchase system to buy people in the gig economy? 

Are they going straight to online portals? How robust is an outsourced workforce?  

It may be flexible but is it reliable?Do your managers have the skills and knowledge they need to manage teams on varying contracts...
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Friends Family and Freelancers

Starts up and early years teams are often made up of friends, family and a few freelancers. You start with the people you trust and work out from there. But working with friends can cost you your friendship and handshake deals can lead to arguments.

What do you need to make this work as your business grows?

You can find yourself frustrated as people argue about who does what, who owns what and what things cost. You know it is time to get a bit more formal, but how do...

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Contracts, Profitability and Compliance

Getting paid, getting the work done, sorting out who owns what are vital to the growing enterprise. Having great set of contracts that sort out who does what can save hours of time (never mind GDPR headaches) so why don't we think of contracts as useful?

Is it the legal jargon that makes us shy away?

From terms of business to associate agreements the growing service business can only go so far without GDPR ready contracts that are aligned to how you work.

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Virtual team low touch compliance

If you are rapidly deploying a virtual or homeworking team you need to plan your compliance and resilience issues as you scale.

From data security and GDPR, to resilience planning for software and hardware problems you are going to need to set it up, monitor it and keep people motivated against an ever-changing landscape of customer demand and team availability.

You will also need to plan for virtual teams to take up the slack and even decide what countries they should be...

Virtual WorkforceEducational / InformativeTechnical / SpecificHumorous / Funny