The Guardian report that Ministers have ordered a crackdown on companies that use large numbers of self-employed or agency workers following the paper’s investigation into low pay at delivery company Hermes. The financial secretary to the Treasury, Jane Ellison, announced that HM Revenue and Customs was launching a specialist unit to investigate companies who opt out of giving workers employment protections by using agency staff or calling them self-employed. Ellison said the Government was “committed to taking strong action where companies, to reduce their costs, force their staff down routes which deny them the employment rights and benefits they are entitled to”.

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