Stephen Levinson puts the Taylor Review recommendations under the spotlight & finds them wanting
- Suggesting new policies is relatively easy. Implementing them is not.
The Taylor Review was commissioned by the Prime Minister in October 2016 to examine how employment practices need to change in order to keep pace with modern business models. The report was published on 11 July. The team of people appointed was chaired by a former policy adviser to Tony Blair (Mr Taylor) and consisted of an employment lawyer from a City practice, a successful entrepreneur (and former investor in Deliveroo) and an ex-policeman who is the current chief executive of the Gangmasters Licensing Authority. The Review team contained plenty of experience of the world of work from a policy, managerial and regulatory perspective but lacked any trade union or other obvious ‘worker’ oriented presence. So though it has been described frequently as ‘independent’ it was not as balanced a group to examine the labour market as many would have expected.
The principal conclusion of the review risks coming within the category of motherhood
