12 March 2021
The Supreme Court delivered a key employment decision last month when it confirmed that a group of Uber drivers had the status of non-employee workers.
In this week’s issue, Charles Pigott of Mills & Reeve examines what this ruling means for gig economy workers going forward.
While the decision does not mean that all taxi drivers—or indeed all gig economy workers—will be able to establish claims for worker status, it does place a new emphasis on the way the employment relationship operates in practice, rather than the legal framework that purports to define it.
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