1. Status, Core Rights and Recruitment
Determine employee, worker or self-employed status and advise on particulars, pay, time, safety, data and fair recruitment.
How to study the CPQ Professional stage
Build the independent research and business-report skills required for P1, then prepare the work-relevant tasks in the one P2–P10 pathway on your record.
Core concepts
Concept 1
Status depends on the legal relationship in substance, including obligation, control and personal service.
Exam cue: Analyse actual working arrangements rather than labels.
Concept 2
Core rights vary by status and include particulars, wages, holiday, working time and health and safety.
Exam cue: Identify which right attaches to which status.
Concept 3
Recruitment engages discrimination, data, criminal-record, immigration and contractual controls.
Exam cue: Review each recruitment criterion for lawful purpose and impact.
Risk pitfalls and guardrails
Treating the written status label as conclusive.
Guardrail: Do not study all nine pathways as mandatory, treat P1 as a timed exam, confuse passage with authorisation or rely on outdated law, tax, procedure or regulator guidance.
Assuming workers receive every employee right.
Guardrail: Do not study all nine pathways as mandatory, treat P1 as a timed exam, confuse passage with authorisation or rely on outdated law, tax, procedure or regulator guidance.
Using unnecessary protected-characteristic information in selection.
Guardrail: Do not study all nine pathways as mandatory, treat P1 as a timed exam, confuse passage with authorisation or rely on outdated law, tax, procedure or regulator guidance.
Memory anchors
Status
Obligation, control, service, integration and business risk.
Core rights
Terms, pay, time, holiday, safety and data.
Recruitment
Need, criterion, equality, privacy, permission and offer.
Checkpoint rule
Do the check-up only after you can summarize each concept in one sentence and identify one dangerous pitfall from memory.
Knowledge Check (after reading)
Short check-up to confirm understanding of this module.
Check-up Questions
A contract calls a courier self-employed, but the company controls shifts and requires personal service. What matters?
A platform worker may send a substitute only with company approval in rare cases. What should status analysis examine?
Answer all questions to submit.
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