Two out of the three, cutlery and glass, have the stigma of being largely conducted by outworkers, homeworkers.
Is he aware that only about half of the many thousands of homeworkers are registered with local authorities as required by law?
Many homeworkers are not in wages councils industries.
The argument is whether homeworkers are employees or self-employed.
Only 30,000 homeworkers are covered by the councils, and even many of those receive less than the statutory minimum rate of pay.
All successive employment legislation has ignored the working conditions of homeworkers.
It may be asked why homeworkers do not organise themselves into trade unions.
I have considerable sympathy with the point that was made about homeworkers.
