Advice desperately needed as on Friday my husbands employer has stated that he is no longer going to pay him the rate he has been paid for the past year and is dropping it down to just 50.00 per day . He works as a part time garage door fitter and has a contract with his employer to work two days a week . He started 4 years ago and has had pay rises since then and the pay for the last year has been 80,00 per day. The rest of the week my husband was employed on on a self employed basis and would submit an invoice for any repairs and extra fitting that be may be booked for on other days of the week . but since the recession he was not getting enough self employed work to cover our bills so last year he set up as a maintenance man and has slowly but surly increased his customer base . Since he was getting such a low rate just 10.00 pounds for a repair that could be take two hours and as he uses his own vehicle and tools the repairs were just not economically viable as he was losing work from his maintenance customers. So last week he told his employer that he could no longer do the repairs based on the 10.00 per repair . Yesterday his employer stated that as my husband was not prepared to do the repairs , please remember this is the self employed part of the week and many weeks there was no repairs to do!, he is only going to pay him 50.00 per day for the two days he is employed for instead of 80.00 that he has been getting for the last year. Tax and NI have been paid by his employer based on the 80.00 so basically I'm asking can he do this?