A Devon man has formed a national organisation aiming to close a loophole which is putting Britain’s 1.7million temporary workers at risk of losing billions of pounds in holiday pay each year.
Jacob Bellas, from Newton Abbot, has set up Contractor Voice and is lobbying for a change in the law to prevent “immoral” umbrella firms from skimming off employees’ holiday pay.
Mr Bellas, an operating department practitioner, was himself the victim of the loophole when he found “several thousand pounds” in holiday pay he was entitled to after working for the NHS was lost when a third party umbrella company went out of business without paying him what he was due.
