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Give self-employed the same rights as the employed.

Submitted on Thursday 9th March 2017

Rejected on Wednesday 15th March 2017

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)

Petition Action

Give self-employed the same rights as the employed.

Petition Details

The Self employed get no sick pay , no maternity pay , no pension contributions, they also have to wait between 30/60 days or longer for payment, how is a tax rise making it "fair".


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

The Chancellor has announced today (15 March) that the proposed changes to National Insurance for self-employed people won’t go ahead.

The Chancellor made a statement about this to the House of Commons. You can find out more, including how to watch the statement and read a transcript, here:

http://www.parliament.uk/business/news/2017/march/statement-on-class-4-national-insurance-contributions/

You can read a letter about this issue, which the Chancellor has sent to the Chairman of the Treasury Select Committee (Andrew Tyrie MP), here:

www.gov.uk/government/publications/letter-from-chancellor-to-chairman-of-treasury-select-committee-on-national-insurance-contributions-for-the-self-employed

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