{"id":20874,"date":"2013-05-20T07:42:04","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T06:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=20874"},"modified":"2013-05-20T07:42:04","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T06:42:04","slug":"whilst-massive-companies-are-confident-they-can-avoid-tax-their-employees-have-no-confidence-in-their-jobs-coincidence-i-dont-think-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/05\/20\/whilst-massive-companies-are-confident-they-can-avoid-tax-their-employees-have-no-confidence-in-their-jobs-coincidence-i-dont-think-so\/","title":{"rendered":"Whilst massive companies are confident they can avoid tax their employees have no confidence in their jobs. Coincidence? I don&#8217;t think so"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The FT <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/bcf86f24-bf04-11e2-a9d4-00144feab7de.html#ixzz2TljTivKE\" target=\"_blank\">reported late yesterday<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Britain\u2019s employees are feeling more insecure and under pressure at work than at any time in the past 20 years, a large-scale study of the workforce has found.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time, public sector workers are more worried than those in the private sector about\u00a0<a title=\"Data confirm jobs recovery has stalled - FT.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/24450b10-bd3e-11e2-890a-00144feab7de.html\">losing their jobs<\/a>. They are also substantially more anxious about losing their status at work.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So we have massive\u00a0corporations\u00a0confident they need not pay tax whilst at the asme time they can\u00a0exploit\u00a0a workforce so reduced to worry about their that they will take work on steadily worsening\u00a0conditions, and for many on\u00a0steadily\u00a0worsening pay.<\/p>\n<p>Is that\u00a0coincidence\u00a0or is it just more indication of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/04\/26\/the-public-accounts-committee-is-fighting-21-century-feudalism\/\" target=\"_blank\">onward\u00a0march of the 21st century neo-feudal state<\/a> that is being created to undermine the 99% for the benefit of the 1%? I think you know what I think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FT reported late yesterday: Britain\u2019s employees are feeling more insecure and under pressure at work than at any time in the past 20 years,<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/05\/20\/whilst-massive-companies-are-confident-they-can-avoid-tax-their-employees-have-no-confidence-in-their-jobs-coincidence-i-dont-think-so\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}