Two out of the three, cutlery and glass, have the stigma of being largely conducted by outworkers, homeworkers.
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Is he aware that only about half of the many thousands of homeworkers are registered with local authorities as required by law?
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Many homeworkers are not in wages councils industries.
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The argument is whether homeworkers are employees or self-employed.
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Only 30,000 homeworkers are covered by the councils, and even many of those receive less than the statutory minimum rate of pay.
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All successive employment legislation has ignored the working conditions of homeworkers.
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It may be asked why homeworkers do not organise themselves into trade unions.
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I have considerable sympathy with the point that was made about homeworkers.
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I value that intervention, because it brings me to the point that there are two ways of supplying material to thehomeworker.
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One of the groups most discriminated against is homeworkers.
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If they do, nohomeworkeremployed on that work is being underpaid.
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The results to hand show that of the 486 homeworkers whose earnings were checked, none was statutorily underpaid.
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The legislation covering homeworkers dates back to 1911.
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Homeworkers are protected as it is by existing health and safety law.
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At present, we simply do not know how many homeworkers exist, the nature of their work, or the hazards involved.
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