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Companies in the uk network, the owners have usually started out as salespeople themselves and worked their way up through the system. but it looks like there can be strings attached. i'm looking at documents about a recent court case involving credico, and this says they choose the accountants that you have to use if you're an office owner, they pay the commissions to the salespeople and they even choose the wording of the agreements that you have to sign when you join up to one of their linked sales offices. the weird thing is, though, the people i've spoken to don't actually seem to know th...

They reduce the risk of liability to credico. seems to me they may be encouraging people that work with them to set up a series of separate companies which are then in the firing line if anyone wants to claim, based on their employment rights, so it's a clever move. based on the evidence he's seen, luke thinks the people i've spoken to in different sales companies could be found to be workers, which means they'd be entitled to rights like the minimum wage and paid holiday. credico told me:

The sales companies our contributors worked with also told us they were confident the sales agents were properly self—employed. so, until it's tested in court, we won't know if the law is being broken. so, what do these stories say about the world of work and employment? are young people being exploited? darrenjones, labour mp and chair of the business committee, which investigates different issues and asks the government questions, had this to say. they are being exploited because they think they're signing up for an exciting job with a good salary that gives them prospects and actually, th...

The long working hours that are unpaid and again used under the umbrella of "self—employed", so it looks like it's self—inflicted, makes me want to be sick. nothing i did in thatjob role was on my own terms. so, it's scary, because that's how they operate. if you could speak to somebody now who you brought into the business, what would you say to them? i have had these conversations. i'd say, you know, like, i've said, "i'm sorry," i still feel bad. you know, some of these people spent a year of their lives buying into this dream that we created together and that's, you know — a year of ...

Seems to me they may be encouraging people that work with them to set up a series of separate companies which are then in the firing line if anyone wants to claim, based on their employment rights, so it's a clever move. based on the evidence he's seen, luke thinks the people i've spoken to in different sales companies could be found to be workers, which means they'd be entitled to rights like the minimum wage and paid holiday. credico told me: