It’ll reduce opportunity for female freelancers. It’s more intervention in people’s lives. Freelancers charge more because they don’t get the same benefits as fte’s. Leave it alone or it will badly affect the opportunity for freelancers.
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My brain hurts with this one.
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When I was self employed I took too much time off so ended up sacking myself. Serves me right
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The fool should try to do a real job as self employed for 2 years to see what its like. Another idiot not suitable for public office
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@TracyBrabin I'm a contractor (freelancer). I just want to be left alone. I'd rather be outside IR35 than have sick pay or parental leave, thank you. cc@cheapaccounting -
Precisely. Leave me alone. Government just wants to control us & cannot tolerate individuals being free & Independent.
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I'm a freelancer. A lot of this stuff never applies because it's impractical. Or it stops people employing freelancers. People contract freelancers so they can avoid the responsibility of employing people. The answer is to reduce the supply of labour. See Adam Smith.
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Why bother going to work? This is getting ludicrous.
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The employed get 6 weeks at 90% of salary in SPL paid for by the tax payer I.e the company pays upfront then they can claim back 92%. Self employed only get £141 a week for the first 6 weeks. So the argument would be that the gov pay 90% of salary for the first 6 weeks.
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The point is that Gov largely pay for employed mat and leave so why shouldn’t they pay for self employed.
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Remembering of course Governments don't pay for anything, they have no money, they simply move tax payers' money around...what next for the self-employed...SSP, unemployment benefit...
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There is a difference in the rate of NAtional Insurance that self employed and employees pay. That difference funds extra benefits for employed people, like SMP. If this is funded by tax on employees it is nuts and wrong. Self employed have pros and cons. This buggers with it.
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They scrapped Class 2 self employed contributions so now all they pay is profits based Class 4...don't forget there is employer's and employee's for the employed...
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I seriously wonder sometimes a) is Diane Abbot in charge of cross party mathematics. And b) how on earth these idiots actually get to decide how my money is spent. And c) I’d love to see they personal budgets, although I suspect most of them do not know what a budget is!
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