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Students own answers - no sick pay, no holiday pay, no job security, might not actually have any work.
Answers:
- Whilst the work offers flexibility, there is no or little workplace protection (holiday pay/sick pay). Also, when you don’t work, you don’t get paid.
- They lost their appeal against a previous ruling that stated that one of their plumbers was a worker rather than an independent contractor.
- Flexible hours, control over how much time you work while juggling with other things you have to do in your life.
- Neither have guaranteed hours or much job security, but zero hours contracts are seen as employees in some sense and they are entitled to holiday pay.
- Tax – in 2020- 2021 it could be worth £3.5 bn
- Students own answers: The gig economy is a new way of working, and in the future there may be other ways of working.
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