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Can a Partner be an Employee?

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Time for Tiffin

A few weeks ago I wrote about whether a lapdancer could be held to be an employee (she couldn’t).  A similar question arose recently in the case of Tiffin v Lester Aldridge LLP at the EAT: can a Partner in a law firm be an Employee?  Nadine Quashie’s case was a Preliminary Hearing at first instance, i.e before the Employment Tribunal; Tiffin’s was an appeal against the refusal of the ET to hold that he was an employee.