Name(s):
Undeclared self-employment
Undisclosed earnings
Undeclared wages
Nature
Unlike double-jobbing, clandestine employment is often the only job that many workers have. It is carried out on the fringes of the law or outside it altogether, and takes three main forms - the undeclared employment of workers, undeclared self-employment, and undeclared multiple jobholding.
Counter-claim
Clandestine employment has always existed because both the employer and the employed benefit from it. The employer does not pay social security contributions or taxes so that the cost of labour is relatively low for him; the employed usually receives a higher take-home pay.