The Court of Appeal has confirmed that a panel member chair of the Nursery and Midwifery Council’s Fitness to Practice Committee was a worker for the purposes of the Employment Rights Act 1996 (ERA). 
 
The Court found that worker status entails a contract to do work or services personally for an employer who is neither a customer nor a client. An “irreducible minimum of obligation” is not a requirement (Nursing and Midwifery Council v Somerville)