Legal Considerations when Hiring

Your workforce, including employees, freelancers, interns, consultants and more, are key to the success of your business. Understanding your legal requirements and the steps you should take to protect your business is key.

Nowadays many businesses prefer to have the ability to call on a flexible workforce to adapt to the changing needs of the business, so the use of freelances, interns and independent consultants is more and more common. Learn how to stay on the right side of the law (and the tax man!) when hiring others.

About the Facilitator

Rashida Abdulai is a multiple award-winning Lawyer and CEO of the online legal platform, Strand Sahara. She started her career at the global law firm Hogan Lovells, where she worked for a decade representing some of the world’s largest corporations.

Moved by a desire to use her expertise to support African-owned businesses, in 2018 Rashida left the corporate world and founded Strand Sahara, with the mission to empower entrepreneurs in the UK and across Africa with the legal support they need to build the global brand of tomorrow.

Rashida has years of experience in advising business owners on all legal aspects of their businesses and recognises the importance of making legal advice available to all. She is perfectly positioned to support entrepreneurs as they navigate the world of business.