The law here in England already recognises other types of employment status, including a possibility of someone being a "worker" but not an "employee". The righ

The law here in England already recognises other types of employment status, including a possibility of someone being a "worker" but not an "employee". The rights and protections that apply are somewhat different. In addition, we have a variety of rules around contracting/freelancing, "gig" jobs, "zero-hours contracts", and other variations. In some of these cases there are genuine advantages to all parties of working in a certain way, but in other cases a similar-seeming arrangement may be exploitative. Successive governments have tried to deal with these issues, but unfortunately with very little achieved in terms of protecting the vulnerable while in some cases causing significant damage even if the arrangement was all above board and everyone involved was happy with it.