Worker status
Following last years Employment Tribunal decision that Uber drivers were workers rather than self-employed, Uber's appeal hearing at the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) concluded today.
Employment Status
Self-employed contractors and the gig economy – keep watching this space!
Pimlico Plumbers has now been granted permission to appeal to the Supreme Court. The decision reached by the Supreme Court will be significant as the highest authority on the employment status of purportedly self-employed contractors. It is likely to have implications for the so-called "gig economy".
Another triumph for cyclists
Following in the tracks of CitySprint, Deliveroo and Excel, Addison Lee is the latest company to wrongly classify its workforce.
Sisters doing it for themselves?
The world of work is changing. According to a combined study by Oxford Ecomonics and the online retailer notonthehighstreet.com, female […]
Speaking Deliveroo: whatever next?
Deliveroo has set out words and phrases that managers should use to describe its riders and their working practices in […]
Matthew Taylor's report on the gig economy – emergent themes
Matthew Taylor, former head of Blair’s Number 10 Policy Unit, is due to publish a report on the gig economy […]
A growing gig economy
In Boxer v. Excel Group Services Ltd ET/3200365/2016, Mr Boxer brought a successful claim against Excel Group Services Ltd (Excel) […]
Worker status – Pimlico Plumbers case
Pimlico Plumbers engaged Mr Smith as a plumber for around five and a half years. Four months after he suffered […]
The case for and against: should we get rid of unpaid internships?
In our article published this week on HRZone, we consider whether or not the UK should ban unpaid internships. This […]
CitySprint courier delivered employee status by employment tribunal
In another case focusing on the gig economy, the London Central Employment Tribunal has ruled that a CitySprint bike courier […]