Sentence examples for a self-employed workforce from inspiring English sources

The need for new legislation is a "fiction" according to a parliamentary review, which concluded that profit – not flexibility – is the motive for using a self-employed workforce.

Among the committees' recommendations are that companies with a self-employed workforce above a certain size should be required to treat individuals as workers by default.

The committees went on to call for companies with a self-employed workforce above a certain size to be required to treat individuals as workers by default.

The committees went on to call for companies with a self-employed workforce above a certain size to be required to treat individuals as workers by default.

Among the committees' recommendations are that companies with a self-employed workforce above a certain size should be required to treat individuals as workers by default.

The government should step in to help those suffering from extreme low pay by extending minimum wage legislation so that it covers minicab drivers and other parts of the 4.8 million-strong self-employed workforce, a thinktank has urged.

But some surveys have suggested a large part of the new self-employed workforce – now totalling more than 4.5 million people – have deliberately chosen that route.

But while the self-employed workforce is getting bigger, typical earnings are actually lower than they were 20 years ago.

The UK's self-employed workforce has grown by 800,000 to 4.7 million since 2008, according to official figures.

Experts said they were most concerned about those in their 40s, who comprise about two-thirds of the self-employed workforce.

He said the company, which listed on the London Stock Exchange in 2015, was one of the "most egregious examples" of businesses adopting "dubious self-employed workforce models".