Zero hours contracts enable employers to avoid employment
law. To protect employees from unscrupulous employers they should be made
illegal. I am proud to have voted for Cornwall Council to pay a living wage to
all its employees and to work with suppliers to ensure that they do too. Another
issue is that many big businesses will only create low paid, part-time jobs - so
people often have to have 2 or 3 jobs to get by. To create a sustainable
economy for Cornwall we need to ensure that money circulates here. This means paying
more to those living and working in Cornwall and supporting Cornish-based
businesses rather than those who employ their managers and pay their
corporation tax outside of Cornwall where their head office is and contribute
little to the Cornish economy. A powerful Cornish Assembly would have the
ability to drive economic development in Cornwall. We need to control our own
destiny if we are to address the low wage economy. Waiting for London to do
this for us has not worked. To improve the Cornish economy we need to do it for
ourselves – but we need the tools to be able to do so.
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