Tag: income guarantees
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Stormont must extend income guarantee to self-employed to protect private hire taxi drivers
Taxi drivers face pauperisation from depot-rent and car-rent charges at time of sharp downturn in fares Unite Regional Community Coordinator, Albert Hewitt, called on the Ministers in the Stormont Executive to intervene to extend the Coronavirus income guarantee to taxi drivers. “Those who work as private hire taxi drivers operate as self-employed contractors to…