Hey ladies,
So im sure you have already seen the news today that Uber has to now class its drivers as emplyees rather then them being self employed. Having had a good think on this and the reason why the court ruled in the drivers favour could potentailly mean a shake up for us too on some of the platforms that we sell content on. The court ruled in the drivers favour due to the amount of control it has over its drivers. This could be argued the same with camming platforms as they:
Determine how much they are to take from us in % of earnings
They collect the money then pay us (under hmrc rules those who are self employed are to collect earnings then pay the rent on space both physically and virtually)
We are to completely do our own marketing (again all the big sites do their own marketing to drive traffic to us and even in some of the agreements use us to promote themselves whether we like it or not!)
They control what content we can or cannot use on our profiles such as putting up social media info or images only being allowed to be on this particular site.
They determine the breaks that can be taken between each private/exclusive show.
They determine if we have to do free chat and on some sites what your rate of pay is for x amount of time if your a new model.
They determine the payment methods we can use to get our money and in cases such as paxum or payoneer we have to cover the cost of then accessing our money. If we are to request direct wire for example they put a minimum amount we have to earn and charge us for this- this could deffinately be deemed unlawful as its our earnings not the sites!
They determine when we get paid and if we want to get paid daily we have to go through another agent and have the cost deducted from our earnings
We could work hours on these sites and not earn anything thus given all of the above that we are then not earning minimum wage.
Might have to take this up with HMRC on this as they may then want to go after the big box sites, international or not, as it can be deemed as exploitation of workers, self employed status or not!
Thoughts on this ladies or am i just thinking way out the box here?



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