>Some, including officers and engineers, have returned, now part of the gig economy on short-term contracts.
As predictable, this trend will continue, as corporations prefer to hire people on in-scope IR35 contracts, which don’t afford them employment rights. These changes to IR35 were timed with Brexit and were sold to big corporations as the Brexit dividend, where they no longer have to worry about unions or pesky employees wanting their rights. The public bought the lie that it was about “tax avoidance”, but in fact it was created to give big corporations more power.
That being said, nothing is going to change because both Labour and Tories support that.
Expect more fire and rehire events.
I wasn’t clear that it was illegal.
Abuse of seafarers goes unpunished yet again. They are workers with some of the weakest protections in the world, incredibly abused over COVID all over the globe and now, just after managing to survive all this they get abused yet again with the government (and most of public opinion) just shrugging their shoulders. 90% of world trade is carried by sea, if seafarers decided to go on strike the entire world economy would screech to a halt, we saw what one vessel blocking the Suez did. Sadly, that won’t happen.
Surely not. The government at the time were so vocal and outraged about it all. /s
Being sacked in itself would had been bad enough, quite a lot of them lost personal items in the process because of the way P&O went about it.
All the support for them losing their jobs but not apparently from customers requiring them to boycot P&O
A rare and unwelcome opportunity here to see a headline which violates Betteridge’s Law.
If they don’t have a monopoly, vote with your wallets. It is the only way.
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>Some, including officers and engineers, have returned, now part of the gig economy on short-term contracts.
As predictable, this trend will continue, as corporations prefer to hire people on in-scope IR35 contracts, which don’t afford them employment rights. These changes to IR35 were timed with Brexit and were sold to big corporations as the Brexit dividend, where they no longer have to worry about unions or pesky employees wanting their rights. The public bought the lie that it was about “tax avoidance”, but in fact it was created to give big corporations more power.
That being said, nothing is going to change because both Labour and Tories support that.
Expect more fire and rehire events.
I wasn’t clear that it was illegal.
Abuse of seafarers goes unpunished yet again. They are workers with some of the weakest protections in the world, incredibly abused over COVID all over the globe and now, just after managing to survive all this they get abused yet again with the government (and most of public opinion) just shrugging their shoulders. 90% of world trade is carried by sea, if seafarers decided to go on strike the entire world economy would screech to a halt, we saw what one vessel blocking the Suez did. Sadly, that won’t happen.
Surely not. The government at the time were so vocal and outraged about it all. /s
Being sacked in itself would had been bad enough, quite a lot of them lost personal items in the process because of the way P&O went about it.
All the support for them losing their jobs but not apparently from customers requiring them to boycot P&O
A rare and unwelcome opportunity here to see a headline which violates Betteridge’s Law.
If they don’t have a monopoly, vote with your wallets. It is the only way.