Agency services from Parasol the
PAYE umbrella company

Parasol, the UK's favourite PAYE umbrella company, has been around since 2000 when Rob Crossland, our esteemed leader and MD, became frustrated with working as an IT contractor and decided to found an organisation that took away the time-consuming hassle of employing contractors and freelancers on a day-to-day basis. Since then, we’ve grown into a company with over 100 staff at our head office in Warrington, providing professional, fully compliant, employment services to some 32,000 contractors and working with some of the best recruitment agencies in the business - including Hays, Reed, Alexander Mann, Capita Resourcing, LA International, Badenoch & Clark, Computer Futures, Randstad Group, Manpower, Adecco, Rullion – and the list goes on.

As an umbrella company we employ the contractor so there’s a very clear employment status. This means that when it comes to the 60 or so employment rights which miraculously appear the micro-second there’s a direct employer/employee engagement, the buck stops with us.
We save you money and mitigate risk
by providing Public & Employers Liability and Professional Indemnity Insurance for the contractor, plus we manage any claims made against the insurance.

We also save you tonnes of time and heaps of resource as we eliminate pointless duplication in back office systems.
We shoulder the admin burden for you by handling all payroll, tax and NI, allowing your sales team to focus on sales.
We enhance your offering, helping to win new business and retain existing clients.
And, last but not least, we help you avoid the legislative minefield (and wrath of the taxman!) by being independently audited and ensuring Managed Service Legislation (MSC) is simply not an issue.

So, if you’re a new agency hankering after working with the UK’s favourite PAYE umbrella company or an old friend and partner of Parasol with queries or questions about one of your existing contractors already employed by us, give our dedicated Agency Team a call on