Policy
Policy ID: | EQ011 | Policy: | Develop tailored support and protections for the self- employed |
Category: | Employment | SubCategory: | Work |
Description and Support Documents
Examples: collective income protection insurance schemes, annual income assessments for those on Universal Credit, better access to mortgages, and pension schemes
Corresponding Key Policy
Taxation and Spending
Introduce an automatic tax credit for all (Universal Basic Income)
Corresponding Charter Article
C4. Employment
Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment. Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work. Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for themselves and any dependents an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented if necessary by other means of social protection. Everyone has the right to form and to join a trade union for the protection of their interests. Where workers form or invite a union to represent their rights, the union will have fair representation at executive level witin an organisation.
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