GA wrote:
What a clown you really are
lol I was right about it being head banging time.
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If you have a job you get stuff like National Minimum Wage, Holiday Pay, Sickness pay
That might apply if you are an employee but in the taxi trade most people are self employed. I suppose one question that springs to mind is can a person be self employed without running a business?
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and you don't have to buy anything in order to do your job
How many cab drivers do you know that buy there own vehicle? Then tell me how many cab drivers you know that don't buy their own vehicle but who rent of someone who has bought a vehicle?
Now what were you saying about a job?
When you go to the labour exchange do they still ask you "what was your last job"? I assume a cab driver would say I was a cab driver but perhaps not you, what would you say?
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if it ain't supplied by the company then you don't need it.
That's refreshing to know.
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With a business you need to supply the tools required to do the job
So how does that square with someone who rents a cab? Does he go to the cab owner and say have you got any jobs, or have you got any tracks available and if the cab owner says no then he is out of a job but if the cab owner said yes would the cab driver then become a business? The status of being self employed in effect means that you are a business but I suppose there are instances of self employed status that do not require you to run a business such as in the case of a cab driver. A cab driver renting out a vehicle has no financial investment therefore before he can become self employed he requires a job, he can only get that job if someone who already has a licensed cab and is prepared to give him one.
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If you leave a job you leave the tools and everything else supplied to you.
If a cab driver who obtains a job from a proprietor and who subsequently leaves, would he not leave behind the tools of his trade, which where never his in the fist place? Where does that stand in your distinction between job and business?
Where does sections 47, 48 and 49 of the 1847 act stand in your distinction of job and business? What can be drawn from the meaning of section [b48 Proprietor to retain licences of drivers, and to produce the same before justices on complaint In every case in which the proprietor of any such hackney carriage permits or employs any licensed person to act as the driver thereof, such proprietor shall cause to be delivered to him, and shall retain in his possession, the licence of such driver, while such driver remains in his employ; [/b]
What do you think the relationship of Bailor and Bailee means, or master and servant? Anyone running a business would be liable for any actions by his employees would he not? Does it not make you wonder why a cab driver is not liable for any third party damage caused by him while driving someone else's cab.
Have you ever considered that a proprietor who doesn't drive a cab would need to employ the cab to a driver or drivers and that in those circumstances he would be providing those drivers with the means in which to carry out a job of work?
I'm curious to know if you have ever described taxi driving as being a job because if you have then all this nonsense your typing is just an exercise at nit-picking and a blatant contradiction of your statement that
"taxi driving is not a job"?
Regards
JD
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