November Budget - Stop Public sector IR35 rules coming into the Private sector

[Pip in a Poke]

I voted Lib Dem in the last election and wrote to them about the changes in IR35 determinations in the Public Sector. I got a bit of wishy washy response. I'm surprised a party like the lib dems doesn't take this on and fight it as it could convince a lot of contractors to vote for them. The Tories are no longer the party of small business and it's an open goal for the lib dems who have seen the vote share collapse. There are a lot of pro-European contractors out there!

it would be a drop in the ocean in terms of increase in their share of the vote

[ProInDisguise]

Just an FYI Vince Cable was in parliament yesterday fighting the cause specifically mentioned IR35. Sounds like someone's been lobbying for us. Bit of a scroll but he's at least respected

Tax Avoidance and Evasion - Hansard Online

I voted Lib Dem in the last election and wrote to them about the changes in IR35 determinations in the Public Sector. I got a bit of wishy washy response. I'm surprised a party like the lib dems doesn't take this on and fight it as it could convince a lot of contractors to vote for them. The Tories are no longer the party of small business and it's an open goal for the lib dems who have seen the vote share collapse. There are a lot of pro-European contractors out there!

[Mordac]

Why aren't we training our young people up with the skills to do the jobs?

Why are UK employers including the public sector so obtuse that they don't realise they can train people up?

Because nobody wants to. Much easier to import a solution, and make that someone elses problem...

[poorautojobber]

Just an FYI Vince Cable was in parliament yesterday fighting the cause specifically mentioned IR35. Sounds like someone's been lobbying for us. Bit of a scroll but he's at least respected

Tax Avoidance and Evasion - Hansard Online

[AtW]

Why aren't we training our young people up with the skills to do the jobs?

Why are UK employers including the public sector so obtuse that they don't realise they can train people up?

Training is a high risk long term investment, which requires a lot of effort from both sides.

Most UK businesses ate not high margin enough to do it, the tax system does not encourage employment in the first place

[SueEllen]

And this morning we had Karen Bradley on BBC Breakfast talking about increasing our productivity and filling the skills gap in the tech sector buy doubling the amount of visas granted. Yet the same government is killing off it's own tech companies.

Why aren't we training our young people up with the skills to do the jobs?

Why are UK employers including the public sector so obtuse that they don't realise they can train people up?

[Big Blue Plymouth]

And this morning we had Karen Bradley on BBC Breakfast talking about increasing our productivity and filling the skills gap in the tech sector buy doubling the amount of visas granted. Yet the same government is killing off it's own tech companies.

Well that's always how it was going to pan out wasn't it?

Kill off the flexible workforce in the PS and then cry "Skills shortage!".

Infosys et al must be rubbing their hands together.

[BoredBloke]

And this morning we had Karen Bradley on BBC Breakfast talking about increasing our productivity and filling the skills gap in the tech sector buy doubling the amount of visas granted. Yet the same government is killing off it's own tech companies.

[jamesbrown]

Going on about how you won't be able to work in a bank in London due to living in Edinburgh simply won't cut it with most MPs.

Poor tarbie.

[SueEllen]

Yep. Same, potted response (though perhaps a bit more misguidedly pointed from Damian Hinds) from mine two years ago.

TBH, I don't think writing to MP's is the way to tackle this at all, they simply do not grasp the nuances.

When you explain our situation to anyone including MPs you need to think of sectors e.g. engineering where there are very well known skills shortages and where making it difficult to get contractors will directly impact their own lives e.g. trains, electricity. It also helps if that sector complaining about not getting skilled people was recently in the media somewhere particularly a newspaper.

Going on about how you won't be able to work in a bank in London due to living in Edinburgh simply won't cut it with most MPs.