sasha wrote:
@Edders
My company is completely the other way round;
We have to have cars a certain colour,
We have to wear company branded clothing (which we have to pay for),
We have to work certain shifts : Day cars at school times, night cars between 2am-6am on a rota to ensure enough cars out overnight (or pay £20 to get another car to cover),
We have to charge less than the council metered rate on all jobs (except HC on street work),
We have to do contract work at a discount,
We have to give a discount if the customer asks (10%),
We cannot refuse to do a job once it has been accepted on the datahead (without a valid reason, abusive, non payer etc.),
We have to pay rent even if we are on holiday, off sick etc.,
If you're a hack you are not allowed to do street work when the phones are busy and there's booked jobs waiting,
We have to do distance work on fixed prices set by the company.
If you don't comply with any of the above you are called to the office for a disciplinary, at a time decided by the owners not of your choosing. At which you are told you must do/not do this and that, it's the company rules. When you remind them you are self employed and should be able to choose how you work, within legal requirements, the answer is always ' if you don't like it go and work for someone else, we don't have to accept your rent '.
So it looks like the company wants to treat us as employees, telling us what we must do, but leave all the expense of being able to work, and pay for the running of the company to us.
Sasha clearly the you are a worker under the direction of the company and are entitled to employment rights, the disclipinary procedure you outline is clearly illegal and renders YOUR company to be acting illegally rendering then not FIT AND PROPER.....................join the GMB and whack the fookin scum
It is businesses like this that the tribunal decision is aimed at.
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