Ms Karan O'Loughlin:

There are probably over 30 pieces of employment legislation on the Statute Book. I believe it would be difficult for one piece of legislation to capture all of that for freelance people unless there is a way to amend the standing legislation so that the word "employee" is changed to the word "worker". In that case, if one is engaged by an organisation as a freelancer on a contract for service, one would have the same rights as someone on a contract of service. The most simple way to do that is to change the word "employee" to "worker". I am not sure that one piece of legislation could capture all of the employment law that exists. That would be complex.