For example, the much discussed and hyped (in some quarters) new category of «dependant contractor» actually appears on the surface to be a simple re-naming of
the existing category of worker and therefore is an important but none the less slightly damp squib of a development.
Not exact matches
The issues are rooted in a compound
of inevitable realities: the continuing disparity divide, a shortage
of workers for growing occupations, a widening skills gap for job
categories yet to
exist, algorithms and automation that keep eating the world, and a new generation
of workers desperate to find meaning in work.
It is
of tremendous concern that a majority
of law lords in this case is content to afford blanket protection / immunity to social
workers, thereby adding to the immunity enjoyed by
existing categories of professionals, ie doctors and police, for making well - intentioned but negligent mistakes in child protection investigations, on the pretext
of protecting children from their allegedly abusive parents.