{"id":1279,"date":"2021-02-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slacc.co.uk\/index.php\/supreme-court-determines-uber-drivers-are-workers\/"},"modified":"2021-02-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T00:00:00","slug":"supreme-court-determines-uber-drivers-are-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slacc.co.uk\/index.php\/supreme-court-determines-uber-drivers-are-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court determines Uber drivers are workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a landmark decision handed out by the Supreme Court last week, the respondents, Yaseen Aslam, James Farrer, Robert Dawson and others have had their claim upheld that they are &ldquo;workers&rdquo; and not self-employed drivers for Uber; as such they qualify for rights under the Employment Rights Act, the Minimum Wage Act and Working Time Regulations.<\/p>\n<p>This will have significant repercussions for firms like Uber who engage persons to work for them under contracts that aim to deny them &ldquo;workers&rdquo; rights by treating them as self-employed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A summary of the main points that will flow from this judgement are set out below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In future, Tribunals (lower courts) should look at the reality of the relationship between parties rather than simply accept any documentation (contracts) between the parties.<\/li>\n<li>Drivers should be considered &ldquo;workers&rdquo; as soon as they switch on their apps until apps are switched off.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is likely to mean that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Drivers will be able to claim minimum wage based on their entire working day not just when they had customers in their cabs.<\/li>\n<li>Drivers should be able to claim back-pay.<\/li>\n<li>They should also be able to claim 5.6 weeks paid annual leave.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This outcome will affect the rulings of lower courts for many years to come if asked to consider the rights of individuals retained in the so-called &ldquo;gig&rdquo; economy.<\/p>\n<!-- -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a landmark decision handed out by the Supreme Court last week, the respondents, Yaseen Aslam, James Farrer, Robert Dawson and others have had their claim upheld that they are &ldquo;workers&rdquo; and not self-employed drivers for Uber; as such they qualify for rights under the Employment Rights Act, the Minimum Wage Act and Working Time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slacc.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slacc.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slacc.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slacc.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/slacc.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slacc.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slacc.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slacc.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}