We meet Eddie, a Unite London cab driver member who explains why self employed taxi drivers need immediate help from the government. WATCH SIGN, SHARE, SUPPORT Sign our petition to the Prime…Read more…
Tough times for our cabbies
Four weeks into lockdown Unite London taxi driver Jim Kelly on what it’s really like for our self-employed members.
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‘Open the door’ for self-employed to get help
Unite has called on the government to change the status of self-employed and precarious workers to employees so that they can immediately benefit from the chancellor’s wage protection scheme, where…Read more…
Forced to choose between health and hunger
Construction workers are still being forced to go to work and put their and their families’ health at risk, or else stay home and comply with social distancing measures — and face losing their…Read more…
#Budget2017: Self-employment tax changes
Increases in taxation of self-employment may raise more money for the exchequer but will do little to clamp down on bad employers who force staff into bogus self-employment to lower their tax bill Today’s standout Budget measure was the increase in the tax paid by the self-employed, with the rate…Read more…
Why are the self-employed included in employment statistics, but excluded from earnings figures?
There are many ways to raise an average. For example here are two ways to raise Average Earnings: Have more people on high pay Have fewer people on low pay And here are two ways of having fewer people on lower pay: Pay the low paid more Just ignore them The Average Weekly Earnings (AWE)…
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Last chance to keep safety protection for self-employed workers
On Wednesday 4th March the House of Lords will give the Deregulation Bill its Third Reading. The TUC believes that Clause 1 of the Bill is one of the most dangerous pieces of deregulation on health…Read more…
Self employed workers’ safety – Government pushes ahead and damn the consequences
If you want a true display of how the government’s ideological obsession with deregulation trumps any type of common sense and seems to ignore the democratic process then you just have to read the…Read more…