Reform UK has announced plans to jail company directors and fine firms 10 per cent of their global turnover if their business is found to have employed illegal workers.
The policy, dubbed the “Deliveroo Law” by the party’s home affairs spokesman Zia Yusuf, was unveiled at a press conference in London on Thursday.
Much of what Yusuf proposes already exists in some form under current laws – raising the question of what is genuinely new, and whether a stricter version could work in a gig economy built on self-employed contractors.
What is the ‘Deliveroo Law’?
Under Reform’s proposals, chief executives and directors of large companies would be personally and criminally liable for illegal working within their business, regardless of whether they knew about it.
