“The UK Status of Workers Bill, 2021 and the abolition of insecure work” The Centre for Transformative Regulation of Work (CENTROW), University of the Western Cape webinars are aimed at enabling participants in South African labour market debates to deepen their knowledge on contemporary debates from around the world on regulatory responses to the changing nature of work and the persistence of inequality and insecurity in the world of work. The Series is facilitated by Professor Paul Benjamin, Extraordinary Professor of Law, University of the Western Cape and Director, Cheadle Thompson and Haysom Inc. Prof Benjamin has more than 25 years legal drafting experience in respect of laws, constitutions and protocols.Lord (John) Hendy KC is one of the UK's most prominent industrial relations and employment law barristers and the Chair of the London-based Institute of Employment Rights (IER). John, who practices from Old Square Chambers took silk in 1987, has appeared in most of the UK’s leading collective labour law cases in the last 36 years. In his capacity as a Labour Party-appointee to the House of Lords, he introduced the Status of Workers Bill in May 2021 which aims to abolish insecure work by replacing the UK’s overcomplicated employment status system with a universal status of ‘worker’ which covers all persons who are not truly self-employed. The IER points out that the Bill would have the effect that businesses that accord workers full rights are no longer undercut by those that choose to use loopholes in the current system to deny workers their rights. The Bill has gone through three readings in the House of Lords where it has widespread support, excluding the Government, and is now in the House of Commons as a Private Member’s Bill.