Martin Lewis reveals the ways your employer is misleading YOU when it comes to your rights
MARTIN LEWIS, money saving expert, has revealed the ways your employer is misleading you about your rights. The 44-year-old shared the link to a handy website with lots of advice on social media.
Martin Lewis reveals tips and tricks for getting FREE money
Martin Lewis retweeted the link, which reveals what employers should do in a number of scenarios where their rights are being infringed.
These include whether you should pay your own national insurance contributions when you should get sick pay and what happens if you fall pregnant.
Some employers will, unfortunately, attempt to pay their employees as little as possible, even if it means flaunting their rights.
One of these tricks includes asking you to pay your own national insurance contributions or go self-employed.
Martin Lewis: How your employer is misleading you when it comes to your rights
Martin Lewis revealed how your employer is misleading you when it comes to your rights
The article, published on Cencab.org.uk, who provide citizens advice for Central and East Northamptonshire, said: “Being asked to pay your own national insurance or to go self-employed when nothing has changed are signs of ‘bogus self-employment’ - where your boss claims you are self-employed but you’re not.”
This means employers can wiggle out of paying sick pay, holiday pay and maternity pay.
Employers can also attempt to pay less by refusing to pay for hours travelled, or attempting to pay people with disabilities less.
Martin Lewis: 44-year-old shared the link to a handy website with lots of advice
Martin Lewis retweeted the link above to the helpful advice
However, the site debunks this myth.
The comprehensive list also informs pregnant women that changes in their work that they have not asked for during pregnancy count as discrimination, and this is illegal.
What’s more, employers insisting employees need to take holiday days is also not acceptable if they have not fulfilled some requirements.
The site said: “If your employer needs you to take holiday, they should give you twice as much notice as the length of holiday needed. If you aren’t given proper notice, you should be paid and not asked to use leave.”
Martin Lewis: The article was published on Cencab.org.uk, who provide citizens advice
Martin Lewis recently revealed how to get free London tickets for kids to the theatre.
This week, you can get a free child’s ticket - ages 16 and under - to one of more than 35 London theatre shows when you buy a full-priced adult ticket.
Appearing on Good Morning Britain, Martin revealed all you need to do is visit the Kids Week website at http://www.kidsweek.co.uk.
The offer was launched on Tuesday this week, with around 170,000 tickets made available.