Hopefully this will spread to other companies. IR35 in the UK is a very good law when enforced (usually against small businesses rather than big ones unfoet) for cutting through bullshit contract statuses that are designed to dodge employment taxes/benefits.
I hope it's extended to bigger companies and elsewhere. I know for example in Ireland lots of big companies like Facebook, Google etc have staff on 11 month contracts through third party firms in order to dodge employment law and taxes...it's ridiculous when those roles are assigned to those companies and have been the same roles for yeara
That's different. FAANG has thousands of contractors doing roles that are internal and integral to their company deliberately on 11 month contracts and then rolling them over. The same positions existing for years and not meeting IR35 requirements. What you describe is totally something else.
That would be in the USA where yes this is absolutely disguised employment.
But in the UK if say came in and did a 1 year engagement to sort out a major brands web presence - I would be considered inside ir35 (unless of course I was mate of Dominic Cummings)
I hope it's extended to bigger companies and elsewhere. I know for example in Ireland lots of big companies like Facebook, Google etc have staff on 11 month contracts through third party firms in order to dodge employment law and taxes...it's ridiculous when those roles are assigned to those companies and have been the same roles for yeara