Taylor Review found wanting

A proposal by the Taylor Review into employment practices to make employers pay similar National Insurance contributions for the self-employed as they do for employees might help discourage exploitation, solicitor Stephen Levinson, consultant, Keystone Law, writes in this week’s NLJ. However, he says its proposal to incorporate case law into legislation ‘ignores the appalling complexity that can thus be created’, and renaming ‘workers’ as ‘dependent contractors’ fails to alter anything of substance. Moreover, its recommendation that the law be regularly re-examined reveals ‘little appreciation of the practical difficulty government departments have every year in securing parliamentary time’