Property News · October 21, 2016

No shelter for UK temporary workers as umbrella companies rain down costs


Employers are dodging NI and cutting basic rights by loading the responsibility on to workers, say unions, as supply teachers reveal scale of exploitationPeter is a supply teacher in his 60s who has been forced to sign up to an umbrella company – or effectively abandon hope of getting any more work. Linda, 42, who has taught for 11 years says she is losing £100 a month because of the fees her umbrella firm charges. Another supply teacher told us his take-home pay has been “drastically reduced”.Few people will have heard of umbrella companies, yet critics say they have become the latest way to exploit more than half-a-million temporary workers in the UK, denying them basic employment rights and shifting the employer’s responsibility to pay national insurance contributions (NICs) and pensions. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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