{"id":2315,"date":"2014-11-25T10:38:29","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T10:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=2315"},"modified":"2014-11-26T14:19:02","modified_gmt":"2014-11-26T14:19:02","slug":"lose-umbrella-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=2315","title":{"rendered":"Lose the umbrella call"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Hundreds of dismayed construction workers are demonstrating outside Parliament tomorrow (Wednesday November 26) in protest at being forced to be paid through so-called umbrella companies, who are pocketing up to \u00c2\u0141120 a week from their pay.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Tory-led government introduced new measures in April of this year which requires construction workers to be paid through PAYE \u00e2\u20ac\u201c pay-as-you-earn tax. Umbrella companies processes PAYE payroll for contractors.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They take a cut of \u00c2\u014120-\u00c2\u014130 per week from construction workers pay and charge the worker both employees\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and employer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s national insurance contributions (over 25 per cent of eligible pay).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Workers are also officially paid at the national minimum wage, despite having negotiated a pay rate far in excess.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite is campaigning for direct employment and an end to all scams that foster a race to the bottom,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 said Gail Cartmail, Unite assistant general secretary.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Payslips are made so complicated that workers have reported that they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t understand how their pay is being calculated.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Many umbrella company contracts are for zero hours meaning workers don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know how many hours they will be required to work in a week. But there is also an exclusivity clause, which prevents them from working for anyone else.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bConstruction workers are crucial in laying the foundations for our NHS and other public services, which are dependent on all workers paying income tax and National insurance,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 said Gail Cartmail.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe injustice of umbrella companies is that they rip off workers who are forced to pay more than their fair share,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 she continued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of dismayed construction workers are demonstrating outside Parliament tomorrow (Wednesday November 26) in protest at being forced to be paid through so-called umbrella companies, who are pocketing up to \u00c2\u0141120 a week from their pay. &nbsp; The Tory-led government introduced new measures in April of this year which requires construction workers to be paid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[167,135],"wps_subtitle":"Action needed to end tax misery of struggling construction workers","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2316,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315\/revisions\/2316"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}