Taylor Review – Update

The House of Commons Work and Pensions and Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committees (the Committees) made recommendations in November 2017 for addressing the issues raised in the Taylor Review. These included:

• Clarifying the employment status test in legislation and introducing a presumption of worker status for non-employees.
• A premium minimum wage rate for those on zero-hours contracts.
• Reform of the rules on continuity of service.
• Ending the Swedish derogation for agency workers.
• Greater financial penalties for rogue employers.

The government responded to these recommendations on 7 February 2018 – please click here  to see our blog post relating to this. On 27 March 2018 the government wrote to the Committees setting out further detail on how it intended to implement the actions that it was to take forward in response to the Taylor Review. The Committees published the government response this week.