Theresa May is pressing ahead with plans to boost the rights of workers in the gig economy on areas including flexibility and pay as part of a package of measures to overhaul employment laws...

Business secretary Greg Clark has told cabinet colleagues that he hopes to implement several key recommendations from a review by Matthew Taylor, the chief executive of the RSA and a former senior policy advisor to Tony Blair, that was commissioned by the government last year...

They want to launch a pilot scheme to investigate the level of labour exploitation at hand car washes, which are regularly linked by the police with illegal labour and modern day slavery...

Business groups such as the CBI broadly welcomed the review, though there was a more mixed response from the unions. Unite said it had “spectacularly failed to deliver” on tackling insecure work while the GMB described it as a “disappointing missed opportunity”...