Taylor Review: Working Practices Debate
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Lord Brennan of Canton
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Taylor Review: Working Practices
Lord Brennan of Canton Excerpts(7 years, 6 months ago)
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Margot James
We have always been absolutely committed to reducing poverty, wherever it exists. The national living wage has gone a long way towards providing workers with a framework so that they need not sink into poverty, and I urge the hon. Gentleman to consider that fact further.
Kevin Brennan (Cardiff West) (Lab)
As someone who has done a few gigs in his time, may I urge the Minister to reject the execrable think-tankery jargon of the term “dependent contractor”? Work is work, and workers are workers. “Dependent contractors of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains,” is not going to change anything.