Freelancers in the Creative Industries & Pandemic Support

It is noted that coronavirus pandemic has had a huge impact on all workers across the economy, and in particular freelancers and the self-employed within the creative industries in Northern Ireland, who have fallen between the gaps of income support schemes and been left with no financial support.

Conference resolves to:

• highlight the hardship experienced by freelancers in the creative industries, since the beginning of the Covid crisis,
• lobby the NI executive to recognise and rectify this
• campaign for a ‘new deal’ for freelancers to achieve increased rights and job security, within the framework of the ‘Better Work, Better Lives’ campaign