Member

The employment landscape in 2025 is vastly different from that of the 1970s and 1980s. Today’s workers include not only factory employees and office staff but app-based couriers, home-based freelancers, zero-hours contract carers and part-time retail assistants. If this board is to advise the Secretary of State credibly on labour market enforcement, it ought to reflect those realities. The consequences of failing to adopt this amendment are therefore significant, because a board dominated by voices from only a fraction of the workforce risks formulating narrow, unbalanced or even ineffective advice. It would lack legitimacy in the eyes of the public and credibility among stakeholders. Importantly, it would miss a historic opportunity to craft labour market policies that work not just for some but for all.