One year on from the Supreme Court’s landmark ‘Uber’ decision, Charles Pigott examines its effect on employment law, in this week’s NLJ
Pigott, professional support lawyer, Mills & Reeve, traces its impact through four significant rulings from the Court of Appeal plus a number of Employment Appeal Tribunal cases since the judgment.
Uber v Aslam was a seminal case that looked at the status of workers in the so-called ‘gig economy’. Pigott writes: ‘There will always be a degree of unpredictability about employment status disputes. As the Uber decision itself emphasises, tribunals are charged with conducting a close examination of how the relationship operates in practice, on the understanding that every case is unique.’
He concludes that, one-year post-Uber, a clearer picture of the working relationship and worker status has emerged.
