‘State creating bogus self employed workers’

The Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection has no legal basis for the imposition of self- employed status on many workers, its Oireachtas committee is expected to hear today.

Martin McMahon, a Dublin activist and commentator, will tell the committee that his experience of the issue stretches back to 2000, when he first broached the problem with the department’s Scope function — which gives guidance on the insurability of employment as regards the application of the law.