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    For the Labour voting contractor

    Or the hard of thinking as I call them.

    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.
    HTH BIDI

    #2
    Like the Tories are better. may's economic idea is national socialism.
    Hard Brexit now!
    #prayfornodeal

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      #3
      Actually the Corbyn idea is like some other countries and to be welcomed if you aren't just a bum on seat.

      In short the people caring for your old parents, the youth workers entertaining your teenage children and the people delivering your online retailer parcels will be employees on NMW who are not subsidised by the taxpayer e.g. you and me.
      "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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        #4
        Originally posted by sasguru View Post
        Like the Tories are better. may's economic idea is national socialism.
        May is the party of GB SocialiSm.

        HTH

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          #5
          Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
          Or the hard of thinking as I call them.

          https://www.advance.online/2017/05/e...lf-employment/



          HTH BIDI
          I don't pay tax in the UK so it doesn't affect me.



          HTH BIDI

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            #6
            Originally posted by AtW View Post
            May is the party of GB SocialiSm.

            HTH

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              #7
              If Labour get elected my employment status is the least of my worries.

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                #8
                There is absolutely no chance of a Labour majority, the best they can hope for is a hung parliament, so the Labour manifesto is meaningless.

                A vote for Labour is simply a reduction of May's National Socialist majority.

                I'm alright Jack

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                  #9
                  The problem both parties face is the insurgency of the stupid.
                  The stupid want to be rich too because they're worth it, innit.
                  But they can't compete with all these hard-working immigrants.
                  So they want to kick them out - but they don't want to do the work that will thus be produced - they want handouts.

                  And the electoral power of the stupid is immense because we've allowed them to breed on the state and they've become a majority.
                  And that is why both the Tories and Labour have to be socialist in this election, that is why May steals Labour's ideas, every politician in the UK now has to have a redistributive policy to pay off the stupid.

                  HTH, BIDI
                  Hard Brexit now!
                  #prayfornodeal

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by sasguru View Post
                    The problem both parties face is the insurgency of the stupid.
                    The stupid want to be rich too because they're worth it, innit.
                    But they can't compete with all these hard-working immigrants.
                    So they want to kick them out - but they don't want to do the work that will thus be produced - they want handouts.

                    And the electoral power of the stupid is immense because we've allowed them to breed on the state and they've become a majority.
                    And that is why both the Tories and Labour have to be socialist in this election, that is why May steals Labour's ideas, every politician in the UK now has to have a redistributive policy to pay off the stupid.

                    HTH, BIDI
                    Indeed. Really we should return to Victorian times. The UK was the greatest country on earth.

                    People don't want hand-outs. They want a fair reward for the labour. Social mobility in this country is dead. Maybe the government should reduce the price of booze, flat screen TVs and football tickets to placate the mob.

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