The Low Incomes Tax Reform Group (LITRG) has welcomed a recommendation in a report
by the House of Commons Work and Pensions Committee that the «self - employed» should be given at least «worker» employment status unless the engager of their labour can prove otherwise.1 This is a recommendation that LITRG made in written evidence to a separate inquiry.2 LITRG believes that the denial of employment rights to
people working in the «gig economy» and the
exploitation of other flexible workers regarding their taxes share a
common cause: the workers» own lack of knowledge, their reluctance to challenge their treatment because they lack confidence or just need the work and the businesses involved apparently having little fear of action being taken against them
by public bodies.
The expression of these rights and interests in these terms [the right to exclusive possession occupation use and enjoyment of the land] reflects not only the content of a right to be asked permission about how and
by whom country may be used, but also the
common law's concern to identify property relationships between
people or things as rights of control over access to, and
exploitation of, the place or thing.