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| '''= organisation that offers realistic answers and administrative, legal, fiscal and financial advice as well as training and tools to simplify and legalise professional activities in the creative industry.'''
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| URL: http://smartbe.be/
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| === Description ===
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| "SMart is a non-profit organisation created in Belgium in 1998. They aim to simplify and support the professional paths of creative and cultural workers. Their principal goal is to help the self-employed develop their own activity through a secure system. They offer multiple services such as information, trainings, legal advice, van rentals, subsidies, a social professional network,
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| '''2. Michel Bauwens'''
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| SMart belongs to the legal category of [[Business and Employment Cooperative]]s, also called "labour mutuals". Freelancers pay a percentage of their income (2%) into a mutual guarantee fund, that allows the mutual to pay invoices within a week, after which it then carries out the payment procedures with the clients for a standard 'factoring' fee. This more regular income then allows freelancers to pay themselves their own salary, and after reaching tresholds, to become a official employee of the organization, while retaining their full autonomy. This allows a non-subordinate form of labor, but also allows freelancers to get the benefits that go with the status of being employed. SMart's leadership also promotes a cooperative and mutualist values agenda. In 2016, they moved to the legal status of a European Cooperative, which started operating in ten EU countries, and they were likely to reach 100,000 members by the end of 2016.
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| =Discussion=
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| At the P2P Foundation we consider labour mutuals of the type of SMart to be a crucial bridge between the precarious statutes of independent workers and the protections of the social state available for the 'salariat', i.e the waged workers.
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| [[Category: Belgium]]
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| [[Category:Labor]]
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| [[Category:Open Company Formats]]
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| [[Category:P2P Solidatiry]]
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