Uber’s rights ruling could have implications for UK gig economy Published: Proposed changes to Uber drivers rights could have wide-reaching effects for the European gig economy.
In a development of an ongoing legal battle over its drivers rights, Uber is fighting to classify its workers as independent contractors rather than employees and appealing to the European Commission to set out more comprehensive regulations for gig workers.
Though the UK has now left the European Union, any decisions made in this case could still have a negative impact on gig workers’ rights in the UK.
Joanna Alexiou, head of employment law at Mackrell Solicitors told
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Okpabi v Shell, the Supreme Court reinforced the ruling of its previous case
Lungowe v Vedanta. These jurisdictional cases not only clarified when UK courts have jurisdiction over a UK parent company for extraterritorial torts committed by its foreign subsidiaries, but they also provided authoritative guidelines as to how lower courts should decide on the merits of parental liability cases.
The jurisprudence on the tort law duty of care has established three myths that
Okpabi v Shell and
Lungowe v Vedanta dispelled: first, the myth that English courts would hardly ever assert jurisdiction on torts allegedly committed in foreign countries; second, the myth that parent companies may owe a duty of care towards the employees of a corporate group, but not towards third parties; third, the myth that it is only in a narrow category of cases that claimants could prove th
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Commentary: Lowering the bar (in a good way): the UK Supreme Court decision in Okpabi v. Shell Lowering the bar (in a good way): the UK Supreme Court decision in Okpabi v. Shell , 17 February 2021
Parent companies incurring common law duties of care to foreign claimants have gone from a distant hypothetical to a very real possibility. Two weeks ago, the Dutch Court of Appeal was the first court to hold on the merits that RDS, the parent company of the Shell group, incurred a duty of care to farmers in the Niger Delta. Now the UK Supreme Court (UKSC) has ruled in the case of
Commentary: UK Supreme Court reaffirms parent companies may owe a duty of care towards communities impacted by their subsidiaries in third countries business-humanrights.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from business-humanrights.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.