stricter laws -Umbrella companies unlawfully forcing workers to pay employers NI

Rejected 13 signatures

What the petition asks

Since the roll out of IR35 April 2021, many contractors working for the public sector have been blanket deemed inside IR35 by agencies or employers. As a result of this , many individuals have been given little to no option other than to move onto an umbrella scheme based payroll system.

Umbrella companies are profiting from this circumstance by enforcing employee’s to unlawfully pay employers NI . As well as this, several umbrella companies have tampered with pay slips, placing employees on minimum wage whilst paying the rest of the wages on a “assignment commission “ basis .
Individuals are seeing an upto 40-50% total tax deduction taken from earnings , with no PAYEE benefits and no where to turn .

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

We have published the following petitions, which you might like to sign:

Introduce a statutory regulator for IR35 assessments: Introduce a statutory regulator for IR35 assessments

Ban the use of umbrella companies in the construction industry: Ban the use of umbrella companies in the construction industry

Change IR35 rules to require client to pay employer NI: Change IR35 rules to require client to pay employer NI

Timeline

19 Apr 2021	Petition opened for signatures
26 Apr 2021	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 13

Status Rejected

Rejected 26 Apr 2021

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