The Employment Tribunal judgment on the Uber case is one of the most amusing I have read. The tribunal ruled that Uber’s drivers are not running their own businesses, as the company claimed, but are workers and therefore entitled to the minimum wage, sick pay and holiday pay. Contrary to some reports it did not rule that they are employees.
Darren Newman explains the case here. Both he and Michael O’Connor also eloquently dispose of the rather silly suggestion that working for Uber is no different from renting a room on Airbnb or selling stuff on ebay.
The tribunal was scathing about Uber’s attempts to portray itself merely as a facilitator of thousands of small businesses.
Any organisation … resorting in its documentation to fictions, twisted language and even brand new terminology, merits, we think, a degree of scepticism. Reflecting on the Respondents’ case, and on the grimly loyal evidence…
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