Gig economy: now is the time to ease the burden for workers

The Taylor review of employment practices, set up by Theresa May, is due to be published. It must promise radical reformWhen Matthew Taylor, chief executive of the Royal Society of Arts, was appointed last year by Theresa May to lead a review of modern employment practices, he said it would be “really important to get out and listen to people”, as opposed to merely crunching data and numbers.Let us hope he has listened to some of the same people as Frank Field, the former chair of th