The Telegraph:
`Premium minimum wage? for workers would be too confusing, MPs told
25 October 2017
Paying gig economy workers a premium level of the national minimum wage would risk confusing an already “too complicated” system by “over-egging the pudding”, MPs were told today. Sir David Metcalf, the UK’s director of labour market enforcement, said that he did not agree with proposals to pay premium rates of minimum wage for casual workers - a key recommendation of the Taylor Review of modern working practices. Sir David, who advised the Government on setting minimum levels of pay for 10 years, told the select committee on Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy that the suggestions outlined in the Taylor review would involve doubling the number of minimum wage levels from five to 10," he said.