Fresh media coverage for Mark Harvey’s research on false self-employment

Mark Harvey and Felix Behling‘s work on false employment in the construction industry is gathering media attention:

• Daily Mirror – 15th July 2010

These tax-evasive labour practises practices are estimated to cost the UK tax payer conservatively £1.7 billion per year.

• Update 15 July 2010: UK House of Commons early day motion based on this work
• Update 6 January 2011: Mark comments on Daily Mirror investigation that highlights false self-employment practices

Seminar – Gender equality and the economic crisis

CRESI’s 26th February 2009 seminar will be given by Prof. Diane Elson (Dept. of Sociology, University of Essex). Seminars are held in Room 6.345, are open to all staff and students and are followed by a reception in the Sociology Common Room (6.341).

Seminar – Illegal labour markets and the Evasion Economy in the UK construction Industry

27/11/2008

16.00 to 17.30, Room 6.345, Dept. of Sociology, University of Essex

Prof Mark Harvey and Felix Behling

Report – The Evasion Economy

CRESI’s Mark Harvey and Felix Behling have published their expose of tax-evasive labour practises in the UK construction industry in their new UCATT report.