‘I Was A Shadow Of A Man’: Self-Employed Dads On The Fight For Paternity Pay
“I had to make a choice between bonding with my new daughter, or paying the bills,” says Jason Walton, who became a father in early 2020. He was working as a self-employed landscaping subcontractor at the time, which meant there was no paternity pay. His only option was to take a week off work, unpaid,…