For four years I’ve worked as a nursing assistant doing ten-hour shifts between three and six nights a week. But when I asked my manager for a copy of my employment contract he said I was self-employed. What can I do?
You are not self-employed. Write to your employer either your manager or the personnel department asking for the written particulars of my contract of employment, which you are required to provide me with under section 1 of the Employment Rights Act 1996. Your employer is breaking the law, and if all else fails an employment tribunal will decide the issue. Even without the written details you do have a contract based on your work to date, and qualify for the full range of employment rights including such things as paid holidays and statutory sick pay.