Delegates at the trade union Forsa’s civil service conference expressed concern that remote working could lead to “creeping forced self-employment” with State employees ending up like “Deliveroo workers at home”. A representative from the union’s Department of Social Protection executive grades branch said members had concerns that remote workers could be turned into self-employed workers and as a result lose pay, pension rights and conditions of employment that they had spent a lifetime paying into.
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