Or the hard of thinking as I call them.
https://www.advance.online/2017/05/e...lf-employment/
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https://www.advance.online/2017/05/e...lf-employment/
Labour election manifesto
The Labour election manifesto, which includes a proposal to raise Corporation Tax, has this to say on self-employment:
Self-employment can bring many benefits, freedoms and flexibilities to people – and is a vital and often entrepreneurial sector of our economy. But there is also mounting evidence that workers are being forced into self-employment by unscrupulous employers to avoid costs and their duties to workers.
The party, led by Jeremy Corbyn, is promising to clamp down on what it calls ‘bogus’ self-employment by:
Shifting the burden of proof, so that the law assumes a worker is an employee unless the employer can prove otherwise.
Imposing punitive fines on employers not meeting their responsibilities, helping to deter others from doing the same.
Involving trade unions in enforcement, e.g. by giving them a seat on the executive board of the new Ministry of Labour.
Giving the Ministry of Labour the resources to enforce all workers’ rights.
Giving employment agencies and end-users joint responsibility for ensuring that the rights of agency workers are enforced.
Rolling out sectoral collective bargaining and strengthening trade union rights.
Setting up a dedicated commission to modernise the law around employment status.
Labour also wants to ban umbrella companies, which it claims “create a false structure to limit employers’ tax liabilities and limit workers’ rights.”
As one of the UK’s leading umbrella providers for contractors, at ADVANCE we believe this proposal shows a huge misunderstanding of our sector on Labour’s part.
The Freelancer & Contractor Services Association (FCSA), the industry body for our sector, summed up our thinking perfectly when it said in this press release:
Corbyn and others clearly don’t understand how umbrella companies work. Umbrellas allow contractors to be able to work independently for a number of end-hirers and provide contractors with full employment rights, all statutory benefits including holiday pay, maternity pay, paternity pay, sickness pay, pensions, redundancy pay and adoption pay. It would be foolhardy to ban umbrellas unilaterally considering that this sector is worth in excess of £3bn in tax and national insurance contributions to the Exchequer annually. We would look to work together with Labour policymakers on initiatives that promote compliance and truly support workers that choose to work through umbrellas. A blanket ban on umbrellas is not the way forward.
The ADVANCE verdict (from our managing director, Shaun Critchley)
Putting aside Labour’s barmy proposal to ‘ban’ umbrella companies, the various election manifestos actually have a lot to offer.
Labour’s idea of making ‘employee’ the default legal status of a worker would help to stamp out artificial self-employment arrangements at a time when the gig economy is booming.
The Labour election manifesto, which includes a proposal to raise Corporation Tax, has this to say on self-employment:
Self-employment can bring many benefits, freedoms and flexibilities to people – and is a vital and often entrepreneurial sector of our economy. But there is also mounting evidence that workers are being forced into self-employment by unscrupulous employers to avoid costs and their duties to workers.
The party, led by Jeremy Corbyn, is promising to clamp down on what it calls ‘bogus’ self-employment by:
Shifting the burden of proof, so that the law assumes a worker is an employee unless the employer can prove otherwise.
Imposing punitive fines on employers not meeting their responsibilities, helping to deter others from doing the same.
Involving trade unions in enforcement, e.g. by giving them a seat on the executive board of the new Ministry of Labour.
Giving the Ministry of Labour the resources to enforce all workers’ rights.
Giving employment agencies and end-users joint responsibility for ensuring that the rights of agency workers are enforced.
Rolling out sectoral collective bargaining and strengthening trade union rights.
Setting up a dedicated commission to modernise the law around employment status.
Labour also wants to ban umbrella companies, which it claims “create a false structure to limit employers’ tax liabilities and limit workers’ rights.”
As one of the UK’s leading umbrella providers for contractors, at ADVANCE we believe this proposal shows a huge misunderstanding of our sector on Labour’s part.
The Freelancer & Contractor Services Association (FCSA), the industry body for our sector, summed up our thinking perfectly when it said in this press release:
Corbyn and others clearly don’t understand how umbrella companies work. Umbrellas allow contractors to be able to work independently for a number of end-hirers and provide contractors with full employment rights, all statutory benefits including holiday pay, maternity pay, paternity pay, sickness pay, pensions, redundancy pay and adoption pay. It would be foolhardy to ban umbrellas unilaterally considering that this sector is worth in excess of £3bn in tax and national insurance contributions to the Exchequer annually. We would look to work together with Labour policymakers on initiatives that promote compliance and truly support workers that choose to work through umbrellas. A blanket ban on umbrellas is not the way forward.
The ADVANCE verdict (from our managing director, Shaun Critchley)
Putting aside Labour’s barmy proposal to ‘ban’ umbrella companies, the various election manifestos actually have a lot to offer.
Labour’s idea of making ‘employee’ the default legal status of a worker would help to stamp out artificial self-employment arrangements at a time when the gig economy is booming.
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