The umbrella con trick, taking your money
This post is about umbrella companies and how they work and how they take money of you, this is part of a campaign by UCAT to stop umbrella companies taking…
Read More
Log In
Sign Up
Month: August 2015
REED hit by £153m bill for unpaid TAX
The employment agency Reed has lost a court battle appeal contesting £158 in unpaid tax. Reed employment agency has been fighting a long-running battle with HM Revenue & Customs over…
Read More
Surprise growth in construction false self-employment
New figures obtained by construction union UCATT indicate that false self-employment and casualisation grew in the construction industry last year. A freedom of information request revealed that the number of…
Read More
Workers hanging from their lives after lift fails
Two construction workers were left hanging on for their lives from an eighth floor ledge when a lift came away from the exterior of De Montfort University on Monday this…
Read More
Holland crane collapse sees 20 injured
Two cranes employed to restore a bridge in the Dutch town of Alphen aan den Rijn have collapsed on to buildings. Amateur video shows the cranes trying to hoist a…
Read More
Worker loses fingers on table saw
Stroud Magistrates Court heard that on the 22 September 2014 agency worker, Egidijus Norkus, 44, was instructed to use the table saw by his supervisor to cut tongue and grove…
Read More