How could off-payroll reforms impact the labour market?
6 March 2020
The House of Lords Finance Bill Sub-Committee will take evidence from the Unite union and the Centre for Research on Self-Employment.
Background
This evidence session will focus on the modern labour market and the gig economy, and the consequences for labour provision in the UK of the proposed IR35 changes.
Witnesses
Monday 9 March in Committee Room 1, Palace of Westminster
At 3.15pm
- Siobhan Endean, National Officer for Equalities at Unite the union (Unite)
- Professor Patricia Leighton, Centre for Research on Self-Employment (CRSE)
Questions will include
- What factors have influenced the big increase in the use of personal service companies?
- How easy is it to test for "false self-employment"?
- How do the proposed IR35 changes relate to the wider context of changes in working arrangements within the wider economy?
- How should employment law and the tax rules around employment status be aligned?
- Will there be any change in the use of umbrella or similar companies as a result of the extension of the proposed rules to the private sector?
- Could the Government's policy objectives have been achieved in a better and simpler way?