Question follow-through · 13864
Gig Economy: Leave and Minimum Wage
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to ensure that people working in the gig economy receive (a) at least the minimum wage, (b) sick leave and (c) holiday entitlement.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 12 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 14 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 19 Nov 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to ensure that people working in the gig economy receive (a) at least the minimum wage, (b) sick leave and (c) holiday entitlement.
14 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Nov 2024
Answer published
All employers must comply with their legal obligations towards those they engage. The Government is committed to creating of the Fair Work Agency. It will bring existing functions like minimum wage enforcement into one place and it will also enforce right...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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