While the Committee welcomes the Government’s plans to reform worker status and bogus self-employment, it must proceed at pace to turn ambition into action. If it does not, it risks more companies adopting a ‘self-employment’ model for their workforces to side-step the measures in the Employment Rights Bill. In the words of the Director of Labour Market Enforcement, the Government can consult until ‘the cows come home.’ It needs to act now if it wants the Employment Rights Bill to succeed. Th...

While the Committee welcomes the Government’s plans to reform worker status and bogus self-employment, it must proceed at pace to turn ambition into action. If it does not, it risks more companies adopting a ‘self-employment’ model for their workforces to side-step the measures in the Employment Rights Bill. In the words of the Director of Labour Market Enforcement, the Government can consult until ‘the cows come home.’ It needs to act now if it wants the Employment Rights Bill to succeed. The Government must prioritise its review of employee, worker and self-employed status immediately, and as a priority address false self- employment, so th Type: recommendation | Number: 6 | Response status: not_addressed Government response: The Government recognises that the UK’s current employment status framework is complex, and that this can cause difficulties for employers, workers, and the genuinely self-employed. This includes its contribution to the rise of so-called ‘bogus’ self-employmen