| | In his New Year message
to members, the leader
of the UK’s Professional
Contractors Group (PCG)
is calling on
government, industry and
trades unions to
recognise the “third
way” of working.
David Ramsden, who
chairs the PCG, said:
“Our biggest challenge
is to get across the
very simple message that
not everyone chooses to | |
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| | be either an employer or
an employee. For too
long, employment & tax
legislation has been
based on the notion that
there are only two ways
of working. Successive
governments have always
talked in terms of
bosses or workers;
Europe cannot conceive
of another way except in
its recognition of ‘les
artisans’ and the
assumption is always | |
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| | that today’s sole trader
is tomorrow’s Richard
Branson or Alan Sugar.”
PCG, which aims to
protect and promote the
interests of the UK’s
freelance community, has
announced that in 2007
it will spearhead a
major independent
research project to find
out how many freelancers
there are in the UK, how
they came to choose that
way of working and the | |
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| | issues that are of
greatest concern to
them.
“Our membership is
growing and that alone
tells me that more and
more people are choosing
to go freelance. In
every other walk of
life, we celebrate
diversity but not when
it comes to work. Our
task is to continue to
represent those tens of
thousands of people – | |
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| | creative, innovative,
independent, flexible
and mobile – who play
such a valuable part in
the local, national and
global economy,” said
Ramsden, adding, “my
prediction for next year
is that the research
findings will surprise
an awful lot of
people.”
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