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CONSTRUCTION workers are losing hundreds of pounds a month because of changes to their employment status, Ucatt warned yesterday.
Ucatt said changes introduced by the government in April prevented employment agencies and payroll companies registering construction workers as self-employed.
Rather than employ workers on a standard PAYE basis, agencies are now forcing thousands of construction workers to be employed via so-called “umbrella” companies, under which a worker has to pay both the employer and employee national insurance contributions, said the union.
The union is pressing the government to introduce measures to end the “exploitative practice.”
Ucatt official Andy Jones, speaking at the TUC Congress in Liverpool, said: “This is an attack on wages and a further move towards casualisation in construction and other sectors. While umbrella companies might be legal, they are certainly totally immoral.”
The TUC overwhelmingly supported Ucatt’s motion condemning umbrella companies and lobby the government to immediately introduce measures to end the exploitative practice.
