The founder of independent and temp worker advocacy group IWORK, says the UK tax system has become “unfriendly to self-employed workers… clearly looking to push people into employment.” The FI asks Kermode, what she believes government can do to change her opinion While UK wages have risen at a record annual pace by 7.3% from […]

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OPINION By Julia Kermode, IWORK The government’s Holiday Entitlement Consultation closes today. I feel addressing this matter is the “only way” to guarantee that temporary workers receive what’s rightfully theirs in holiday pay.  The government has been urged to end the stigma that surrounds rolled-up holiday pay, which leads to hundreds of millions of pounds […]

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The government has shelved plans to introduce the Single Enforcement Body (SEB) for employment rights, which included a strategy to regulate the umbrella industry. The SEB was to be introduced to protect workers’ rights and prevent bad practices in the labour market. The powers of the SEB body were to have new powers to tackle non-compliance. That […]

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OPINION Many of UK’s 1.6m temps are estimated to be missing out on thousands every year individually. What can they do about it? Julia Kermode of IWORK offers some tips. Amid a 40-year inflation high, soaring energy bills and rising mortgage payments, the UK’s 1.6m temporary workers have been urged to claim the estimated £97m worth of unclaimed holiday […]

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Fuel duty is a drop in the ocean, says personal finance expert. Others serving self-employed workers are asking for tougher, perhaps unpopular measures The Spring Statement has cut fuel duty by 5p a litre. Currently fuel duty costs around 58p a litre, and  VAT almost 28p per litre. On a 55 litre tank, £47.30 is […]

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