Property News · March 11, 2017

Now we should go after companies that force workers to be self-employed


The ‘flexible workforce’ has no rights, and employers save themselves huge amountsThe chancellor moralised about the unfairness of the national insurance system, telling us how the self-employed pay lower taxes compared to conventional workers, yet now receive the same benefits. But the real national insurance dodgers are not the plumbers, electricians and small businesess that, in the past, made up the bulk of the self-employed. The people the chancellor should really be turning his guns on are the giant corporates who have effectively forced millions to go self-employed to save a packet on employer’s national insurance, pensions and holiday pay.False self-employment is now rampant. It is immoral, but with clever lawyers at their side, lots of companies avoid prosecution. Bogus self-employment is found most commonly in the construction trades and among “new economy” workers scraping a living as couriers and delivery people, but also pops up in the strangest places. I know of a social worker who gets virtually all her work from one local authority, yet is classified as self-employed. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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