Coronavirus: zero-hours workers sacked en masse despite Tory government promises
Rishi Sunak: his promises to employees are turning out to be worthless.
Another Tory coronavirus promise bites the dust.
Rishi Sunak promised that zero-hours workers would be covered by his promise to pay 80 per cent of employee wages, as long as they were on PAYE.
But his promise depended on employers signing up to the deal, and many haven’t.
Instead, the Department for Work and Pensions has been swamped with new claims for Universal Credit.
The reason?
Rishi Sunak said on Friday that workers on zero-hours contracts would be covered, as long as they were paid through PAYE. But many of these workers have simply been let go en masse in any case. Self-employed workers, who are not on PAYE, are not covered at all and will have to claim benefits if their work dries up and no new government measures are enacted.
There’s no two ways around it. The Tories promised people would be protected; the Tories lied.
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we need lists of all those companies involved in this so that when normality returns people know who they are and watch them fold, wallowing in there own greed
Nasty Tories will always be Nasty Tories.
Everything the fascist tories claim is a lie! All the worthless promises of financial aid; protecting tenants from eviction; ensuring the rights of disabled; unemployed women and men will be protected – they are all lies!
And now this is happening – ‘Millions of British people are already struggling to get the food they need and are falling into debt because of the coronavirus pandemic, a survey carried out this week suggests.
The scale of financial and food insecurity is revealed by the numbers reporting that they had already had to borrow money to survive, just a week into the lockdown. Of those surveyed, 6% had taken out personal loans. Households with children were two and a half times more likely to have borrowed than those without.
On 21 March the government instructed people at greater risk of Covid-19 to stay in their homes and self-isolate for 12 weeks. It said it would contact 1.5 million people in this category and set up a system with local authorities, voluntary organisations and business to deliver food parcels to the homes of those who lacked family support.
Military planners have been assigned to work with councils, but the Guardian understands that the scheme is not yet running and will take a few weeks to scale up to supplying food to 400,000 people. The Food Foundation has calculated that more than twice that number – 860,000 people who fall into the medically vulnerable category – were suffering from food insecurity even before the crisis.’
Note the above Government schemes have not yet even been implemented!!
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/mar/28/families-borrowing-buy-food-week-of-lockdown