Government response to BEIS & Work & Pensions Committees Framework for Modern Employment report published

The Government response to the BEIS and Work & Pensions Committees report on a framework for modern employment has been published today:

A framework for modern employment: Government response to the First Joint Report of 2017–19

In November 2017, the Work and Pensions and Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Committees published a joint report and draft Bill to close the loopholes that allow companies to use bogus “self-employment” status as a route to cheap labour and tax avoidance, saying the law must not allow willingness to exploit workers to be a competitive advantage [original news story here].

The joint report from the Committees followed evidence sessions with Matthew Taylor, on his report Good Work: the Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices, and with Sir David Metcalf,  Director of Labour Market Enforcement.