‘So immoral’: gig economy workers forced to pay fee to receive their wages

Retail assistants on low pay using YoungOnes platform docked cash or told to wait up to 30 days for earnings

Retail assistants have accused a gig economy firm of holding them to ransom" by making them pay a fee if they want to receive their wages within a month.

A new payment system brought in by YoungOnes, which supplies freelance" retail assistants to many well-known high street stores, charges gig workers 4.8% of their earnings to be paid in one minute or 2.9% to be paid in three days. If they decline, they typically have to wait 30 days. Previously the workers were paid in three days, without a charge.