Cash in hand and working rights for young people
A new report from Community Links national team LinksUK has assesed the attitudes of young people between 14 and 25 years towards cash-in-hand work and their opinions and knowledge on working rights. The report ‘Cash in hand and working rights for young people’, adds to our growing body of research on the informal economy which strengthens the case for the government to act on informal working, including changing the welfare benefit system. The report is available for free download and our Press Release contains further background.
Trainees on our Community Development course interviewed local young people to produce the report. Key research findings show that in general young people knew about cash-in-hand work, and the fact that it was illegal. However for most of the young people interviewed, cash-in-hand was seen as a ‘good thing’, because wages were paid there and then. As one young person said they needed “immediate cash, for immediate use”, this is important as so many young people in London come from a background of poverty.
Cwti Green, who oversees the training course, said the the result was a “well-written and thoughtful report with some very interesting conclusions. The great strength of this way of teaching and learning is its practicality and relevance to the lives of the students, and the confidence and skills they gain from working on a research project such as this.”
Read our Press Release or download a copy of the report.
For further information contact Aaron Barbour, LinksUK