Just for accuracy, they were actually recognised as "workers"[0], which is a different formal employment status to "employees"[1] and doesn't confer the full set of employment rights in law. Worker status does come with the rights to minimum wages, breaks and holiday pay, though, so it's still a reasonable concern that if/when Deliveroo riders are granted the same status it will increase the company's operating costs considerably.
So far all the courts in the Netherlands have done the same for deliveroo employees (no longer gig workers). They keep appealing and losing so we have to wait another year or so for the final verdict.
Uber drivers need to be allowed to set their own prices, but stay contractors, imo. The UK is different to the US in that you don't need health insurance, so the employee distinction is less expensive of a change.
> Uber drivers need to be allowed to set their own prices
Yikes this seems terrible for the drivers. There would be a race to the bottom surely with the most desperate drivers who perhaps just need to make a mortgage payment today undercutting everyone else.
Silhouette|4 years ago
[0] https://www.gov.uk/employment-status/worker
[1] https://www.gov.uk/employment-status/employee
consp|4 years ago
throwaway3699|4 years ago
chrisseaton|4 years ago
Yikes this seems terrible for the drivers. There would be a race to the bottom surely with the most desperate drivers who perhaps just need to make a mortgage payment today undercutting everyone else.
kmlx|4 years ago