IT was a funny way to relaunch a failing administration: to focus an economic trend that is tending to impoverish millions of voters. Perhaps Theresa May misunderstood yesterday’s Taylor Report into the “gig” economy, and thought that all those zero hours workers would welcome the right to work for less than the minimum wage. That window cleaners would be joyous at having to give up the cash economy and start using expensive online payment systems.
The review by Matthew Taylor, former adviser to Tony Blair, did of course argue that gig workers should be able to request the living wage, […]
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