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Sat Nov 06, 2010 12:08 am
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Scally » Sat Nov 06, 2010 12:08 am
Brings home how important it is to de-regulate the informal care economy. If we could just chuck out the petty rules on benefits, income tax, national insurance and reporting small scale earnings and return to common sense and cash in hand on p/t earnings of less than say £200 a week, then it would be possible to employ people quite happily on £6 an hour in most parts of the UK and help lift them from poverty.
Because of the rules on self-employment and benefits, many decent people are barred from working and therefore carers have to turn to agencies charging more than twice that hourly rate. Deregulation/simplification at the bottom end of the employment market is vital to enable socially excluded people to get a toehold intio employment and to restore some social justice to society. We have allowed wishy washy liberals and organised trades unions to dominate this debate for far too long: they are holding millions of people at the bottom of the pile back from improving their situation through small scale social enterprise as paid self-employed care workers on hourly rates.