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Did you know you can be a "worker" and still be classified as self-employed? Or have you ever been confused by friends or relatives who work for one company and yet are not "employed" by
that firm?
You are not alone - and in fact this has become a key area of concern for the government. A formal review led by Matthew Taylor, Royal Society for the Arts chief executive and former adviser
to Tony Blair, has just reported back after a nine-month investigation and has proposed a whole series of employment law reforms.
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In particular, it has set out a series of measures to offer greater security to those employed flexibly in the so-called "gig economy", with the ultimate aim of improving the lot of
vulnerable people and boosting stubbornly sluggish economy productivity.
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