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Taylor Review on employment practice

19 July 2017 / Graham Farquhar , Charlie Barnes
Issue: 4608 / Categories: Comment & Analysis
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Good work

KEY POINTS

  • The Taylor Review has wide-ranging implications for tax advisers employment lawyers and HR professionals.
  • The government has until the end of the year to respond to the review’s proposals.
  • The taxation of labour should be made more consistent across employment forms.
  • The review recommends that the tests for employment rights and tax be aligned.
  • Zero hours contracts have been criticised the flexible labour market is important to the economy and some workers.

Having been commissioned in October 2016 Good Work: The Taylor Review on Modern Working Practices was published on 11 July (tinyurl.com/y7bax3t3). It makes wide-ranging proposals on working practices and the ‘gig economy’ and has significant implications for tax advisers employment lawyers and HR professionals.

The review looks primarily at how employment practices must...

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