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Employ external staff with legal certainty: Avoid the risk of bogus self-employment

To avoid the risk of bogus self-employment, we use the FLAC tool, developed by the renowned law firm TaylorWessing. This sophisticated tool helps us to check and safeguard your freelancer relationships quickly, precisely and with legal certainty.
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consultingheads: Your partner for the legally compliant use of freelancers

By using TaylorWessing’s FLAC tool, we offer you a state-of-the-art solution for checking your freelance assignments quickly, efficiently and, above all, with legal certainty. With this solution, we ensure that your projects comply with all legal requirements and that the risk of bogus self-employment is minimized.

Automated and comprehensive compliance check

The FLAC tool automatically checks all freelancer relationships for bogus self-employment, ensuring a thorough compliance check that companies often lack. With this function, companies can ensure that all assignments comply with legal requirements without manual tracking.

  • Automatic identification of bogus self-employment: The FLAC tool automatically checks all freelancer assignments so that no potential risks are overlooked.
  • Compliance with legal regulations: The tool ensures that all assignments comply with current legal requirements.
  • Increased efficiency through automation: The automatic check saves time and minimizes errors caused by manual checks.
  • Regular updates: The tool is regularly updated to reflect the latest legal developments.
  • Minimization of checking effort: Instead of time-consuming manual checks, the tool takes over the main work and ensures that all orders are legally compliant.

Early risk identification and prevention

The FLAC tool helps companies to proactively prepare for German Pension Insurance audits by identifying potential bogus self-employment at an early stage. This allows companies to minimize the risk of being audited by the DRV during the audit.
  • Early risk detection: The FLAC tool recognizes immediately if a freelancer assignment has a potential risk of bogus self-employment.
  • Preventive measures: Companies can act in good time before a company audit is carried out by the DRV.
  • Security during audits: The tool ensures that all freelancer relationships are legally compliant so that there are no problems during tax audits.
  • Risk minimization: The tool helps to identify risks in advance and take measures to avoid bogus self-employment.
  • Avoidance of fines: The tool helps to identify risks in advance and take measures to avoid bogus self-employment.

Secure legal differentiation from bogus self-employment

The FLAC tool ensures that freelancers are correctly and legally classified as self-employed. Through precise legal assessments, it prevents companies from becoming liable for bogus self-employment, which could lead to considerable financial consequences.
  • Correct classification of freelancers: The FLAC tool ensures that freelancers are classified as self-employed in accordance with current legal regulations.
  • Avoiding liability: The correct classification of freelancers reduces legal liability risks for companies.
  • Legally compliant documentation: All assessments and decisions are documented in the tool to provide evidence in the event of an audit.
  • Reduction of tax and social security reclaims: The tool helps to avoid tax reclaims and social security contributions that could result from bogus self-employment.
  • Adherence to compliance requirements: All relevant compliance requirements for freelancer relationships are met by the tool.

Checking contracts for legal conformity

The FLAC tool evaluates existing freelancer contracts for legal compliance. It provides recommendations for adapting the contracts to ensure that they meet the requirements for genuine self-employment and avoid the risks of bogus self-employment.
  • Real-time contract check: The FLAC tool checks existing and new freelancer contracts for legal compliance in real time.
  • Legally compliant contract design: The tool provides clear recommendations for adapting contracts so that they meet the requirements for self-employment.
  • Avoidance of legal uncertainties: By ensuring that contracts are correct, the tool minimizes the risk of legal problems caused by uncertain contract designs.
  • Secure documentation: All contracts and changes are documented so that verifiable documentation is available in the event of an audit by the DRV.
  • Optimization of the contract process: The tool enables faster and more efficient contract review and adjustment.

Optimization of freelancer selection from a compliance perspective

Due to the shortage of skilled workers, companies are increasingly relying on freelancers. The FLAC tool helps to classify these external workers correctly in order to continue to benefit from the flexibility and expertise of freelancers without taking legal risks.
  • Safe selection of freelancers: The FLAC tool checks the commissioning of freelancers for compliance with legal requirements in order to avoid risks.
  • Securing skilled workers while maintaining compliance: Despite the shortage of skilled workers, the tool ensures that freelancers can be employed legally and without the risk of bogus self-employment.
  • Extended flexibility: Companies can continue to have flexible access to the freelancers they need without having to worry about legal problems.
  • Complete transparency in the selection process: The tool ensures that all freelancer relationships are transparent and traceable.
  • Risk-free recruitment: Companies can select freelancers quickly and risk-free without running the risk of bogus self-employment.

Transparent documentation and reporting

The FLAC tool provides a detailed documentation and reporting function that gives companies a transparent overview of all their freelancer relationships. This overview facilitates the identification and control of risks and provides clear evidence in the event of audits.
  • Complete traceability: The FLAC tool provides complete, traceable documentation of all freelancer relationships and the inspection processes.
  • Facilitation of audits: The clear and structured documentation facilitates internal and external audits, as well as audits by the DRV.
  • Clear reporting: The tool provides meaningful reports that prove the legal compliance of freelancer assignments.
  • Avoidance of uncertainties: A lack of transparency is eliminated through comprehensive documentation, which helps companies to protect themselves legally.
  • Strengthening compliance processes: Regular and detailed reports optimize and safeguard compliance management in the long term.

Why Us

Your advantages with consultingheads

Protect your company from legal risks and ensure the compliance of your freelancer assignments – with TaylorWessing’s FLACC tool, which we use for you to carry out a precise and legally compliant audit.
With our specialized FLAC tool, we guarantee the legally compliant classification of freelancers and avoid the risk of bogus self-employment. Companies can be sure that their freelancer relationships comply with current legal standards.
By using our automated auditing solution, we offer you a quick and precise review of all freelancer relationships. You receive detailed reports within a very short time, which immediately strengthen your compliance strategies.
With consultingheads and our FLAC tool, you minimize the risk of being held liable for unlawful freelancer relationships. You protect yourself from financial and criminal consequences by proactively ruling out bogus self-employment in your freelancer relationships.

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Compliance for freelancers: Our process for legally compliant collaboration

Bogus self-employment entails considerable legal and financial risks for companies. We use the FLAC tool, developed by TaylorWessing, to check your freelancer assignments efficiently and with legal certainty. This tool helps us to identify the risks of bogus self-employment at an early stage and to protect your company.
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Understand: Analyzing your freelancer relationships

First, we analyze your existing freelancer relationships. We use the FLAC tool to check contracts and work processes in order to identify potential risks of bogus self-employment at an early stage. This gives you a precise assessment of which freelancer relationships may harbor legal risks.

Connect: Testing and legally compliant adaptation

The FLAC tool carries out a detailed review of your freelancer contracts and identifies uncertainties or irregularities that could lead to bogus self-employment. We then support you in adapting these contracts to make them legally compliant and in line with the statutory requirements of the German Pension Insurance (DRV).

Long-term compliance and advice

After the adjustment, we ensure that your freelancer relationships continue to meet the legal requirements through regular reviews. Our team will provide you with ongoing advice to ensure that your assignments remain legally compliant and that you can react to changes in good time.

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Trust through results - voices of our scale-up customers

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Efficient and precise checking of external orders

HR Manager, large company

“We had to ensure that our external specialists were commissioned correctly without running the risk of bogus self-employment. Thanks to consultingheads and the FLAC tool, we were able to check the assignments quickly and easily. The experts guided us through the entire process and ensured complete legal certainty.”

Secure commissioning of independent specialists

Legal Counsel, Financial Services Provider

“In collaboration with consultingheads, we comprehensively reviewed our existing contracts with freelancers. The FLAC tool helped us to identify all potential risks with regard to bogus self-employment and to take measures quickly. The process was transparent, efficient and gave us the security we needed for future assignments.”

Fast and uncomplicated verification of external workers

Managing Director, technology company

“Thanks to the collaboration with consultingheads and the use of the FLAC tool, we were able to review all external labor assignments in a very short time and ensure that they met the legal requirements. We received clear recommendations and quickly made the necessary adjustments. The expertise of consultingheads helped us a lot to minimize the risk of bogus self-employment.”

Competent advice and auditing of external personnel officers

Head of Legal, Management Consulting

“Working with consultingheads helped us to create a clear and legally secure basis for commissioning independent experts. With the FLAC tool, we were able to check all relevant data quickly and adapt our contracts in good time. We were very impressed by the expertise and the efficient process.”

Comprehensive review of our external contracts

CFO, manufacturing company

“To ensure that our external workers were contracted correctly, we called in consultingheadse. The FLAC tool quickly analyzed all the relevant information and helped us to adapt our contracts in line with the latest legal requirements. The collaboration was straightforward and provided us with legal certainty.”

FAQ

Your questions, our answers - especially for protection against bogus self-employment

Why should I have the bogus self-employment of my freelancers checked?

Checking for bogus self-employment protects your company from legal and financial risks. By identifying and adjusting your freelancer relationships at an early stage, you can avoid potential liability for social security contributions and taxes and ensure that you are on the safe side legally.

How does TaylorWessing's FLAC tool help to avoid bogus self-employment?

The FLAC tool, which was developed by the respected law firm TaylorWessing, enables us to efficiently check freelancer relationships for possible risks of bogus self-employment. We use this tool to ensure that your assignments meet the legal requirements.

What happens if I do not have the test carried out?

If you fail to check your freelancer relationships, you could be confronted with sanctions, additional payments and penalties in the event of an audit by the German Pension Insurance (DRV) or other authorities. The use of bogus self-employed persons can also affect the trust of investors and partners and cause long-term reputational damage.

How long does it take until I receive the results of the test?

The check with the FLAC tool takes place in the shortest possible time. As a rule, you will receive a detailed analysis of your freelancer relationships and a clear recommendation as to whether adjustments are necessary within a few minutes. Our experts are also available to provide you with in-depth advice.

What is the difference between checking with the FLAC tool and a manual check?

The FLAC tool uses cutting-edge technology and AI-powered algorithms to quickly and efficiently identify potential risks of bogus self-employment. Compared to manual checks, which are time-consuming and error-prone, the FLAC tool delivers accurate results and saves valuable time while minimizing compliance risks.

Do you have further questions? Our team understands the specific requirements of companies that use freelancers and is always available to discuss your challenges in the area of bogus self-employment and find the optimal solution for your compliance processes.

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Technology & IT

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International software provider

The company, which regularly hired freelancers for IT projects, had concerns about bogus self-employment and wanted to ensure that all assignments complied with legal requirements. The FLAC tool was used to quickly review all relevant freelancer relationships to identify potential legal risks. The tool helped to define clear guidelines for contract creation and ensure that no contractual relationships could be classified as bogus self-employment. The result was a legally secure freelancer strategy and the avoidance of costly audits.

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Innovative manufacturer of electric vehicles

The car manufacturer regularly used highly specialized freelancers in the fields of engineering and IT for development projects. Due to the complexity and high risk of bogus self-employment in this area, it was crucial to legally secure the contractual relationships. The FLAC tool enabled a quick review of all freelancer assignments, identified potential risks and helped to structure all contracts in such a way that they met the requirements of the German Pension Insurance (DRV). The result was a legally compliant use of freelancers and the avoidance of risks that could lead to liability claims.

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Global consumer goods group

The consumer goods group needed to ensure that all marketing freelancers were correctly classified as self-employed in order to avoid the risk of bogus self-employment and the associated legal consequences. The FLAC tool was used to check and review all relevant contracts and assignments in the shortest possible time. Potential risks were quickly identified and eliminated by adapting the contracts to ensure a clear distinction from bogus self-employment. The result was a legally secure assignment of marketing experts and the avoidance of tax audits or penalties by the DRV.