Self-employed workers and their partners are to gain maternity and pension benefits under EU legislation that came into force last week.
The Directive on self-employed workers and assisting spouses grants women a maternity allowance and a leave of at least 14 weeks, and could help to encourage women entrepreneurs. Currently, only one in three entrepreneurs is a woman. Member states have two years to bring it into national law.
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Jonathan Fisher KC highlights that it now accounts for around 40% of criminal offences, with roughly 70% involving technology, and argues that the UK cannot simply prosecute its way out of the problem. Detection, investigation and prosecution all require improvement, while different fraud types demand tailored responses.
