CORONA VS FREELANCING (UK)

While a growing number of white-collar companies are asking employees to work from home, gig economy companies seem to be doing little to protect workers in the face of coronavirus — though the pressure is mounting for them to do more. While engineers and business managers at companies like Uber and Lyft can bring their laptops home and access corporate health resources, the independent contractors who ferry passengers, hot meals and groceries, cannot…

As a gig worker, we don't get sick pay. We don't have health insurance. Most people in the gig economy are classified as independent.

One of the worst things is being ill-informed about what's happening and how it affects our daily lives, workers, gig-workers. whoever you are. A lot of folks have been requesting what help there is out there.

Here's a fairly informative piece…

freelance designers sick-pay (Design Week)