Ube Drivers - Are You a Worker?

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The supreme court confirmed, after a number of other courts did the same, that workers like uber drivers are considered a worker status on er the u k. Law. So what that means technically is you do have freedom to work whenever you want, but how many hours are you working? And the law has a purpose, which is to protect people from being exploited or being abused,. such as the right to earn the national minimum weight. Even though we want the workers status, thehas still a lot more to do, because we're seeing a lot of unfair dismissals. You're not entitled to sicx pay. But at the same time, since we won, the supreme court was

Paris Marx is joined by Yaseen Aslam to discuss the UK Supreme Court ruling that Uber drivers are not self-employed, the long fight to reach that point, and the next steps in the push for gig workers’ rights in the UK.

Yaseen Aslam is the president of the App Drivers and Couriers Union and a lead claimant in the Aslam v Uber case. Follow Yaseen on Twitter at @Yaseenaslam381 and the ADCU at @ADCUnion.

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In February, the UK Supreme Court upheld a previous ruling the Uber drivers were not self-employed, but were covered by a “worker” status. The following month, Uber reclassified workers, but didn’t observe the Court’s definition of what it meant to be a worker.
On September 28, Uber drivers in 8 UK cities went on strike, demanding better hourly rates and the full implementation of the Supreme Court ruling/
The ADCU sued Uber in the Netherlands over automated dismissal and not providing drivers their data under the GDPR. In April, the court made Uber reinstate 5 drivers.
In October, the ADCU announced it was suing Uber over its racially biased facial recognition algorithms.
Find out more about the ADCU.

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