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© Getty Images Uber announced Tuesday that it would reclassify more than 70,000 drivers in the United Kingdom as “workers” who will receive a minimum wage while completing trips, holiday time and eligibility for a pension plan. In an opinion article in the Evening Standard, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi called the announcement a decision “to turn the page.” “Our thinking on this issue has evolved over time, and I will be the first to admit that we’ve struggled to identify solutions t...

Uber agrees to pay British drivers minimum wage, time off, other benefits By (0) While Ubers announcement introduces a minimum wage and some benefits, it stop short of making British drivers actual employees. File Photo by Will Oliver/EPA-EFE March 17 (UPI) -- In a historic victory for gig workers, rideshare giant Uber on Wednesday began paying all British drivers a minimum wage and some benefits, following a major legal defeat last month that raised questions as to whether the company might ...

Uber says it will treat UK drivers as workers in wake of Supreme Court ruling Uber said Tuesday that drivers in the U.K. who use its ride-hailing app will be treated as workers, a designation that will give them some benefits such as holiday pay. However, even as Uber seemingly concedes to a Supreme Court ruling last month, a new fight could already be brewing over the company’s decision to calculate working time from the point a trip commences — rather than when drivers log on to the app. ...

The new legal classification, which follows a U.K. court ruling last month, will entitle the workers to more pay and benefits, but stops short of making them employees.

Uber and Ola ordered to hand over more data to drivers A Dutch court has rejected Uber and Ola’s claims that drivers collectively taking action to access their data amounts to an abuse of their individual data access rights, laying the ground for drivers to form their own union-controlled data trust Share this item with your network: By Published: 16 Mar 2021 13:01 Ride hailing apps Uber and Ola have been ordered by a Dutch court to provide their drivers with greater access to data held ...

Union of ride hailing apps drivers gets mixed results in lawsuit against Uber, in bid to gain access on data about drivers. — Reuters The British drivers whose legal victory against Uber Technologies Inc. upended the UK’s gig economy, are now trying to get access to the data the ride-sharing app stores on them. Former Uber drivers James Farrar and Yaseen Aslam, who founded the App Drivers & Couriers Union, got mixed results in an Amsterdam District Court ruling on Thursday. The court will r...

CLRCRMCK Interview: Uber driver Yaseen Aslam on his Supreme Court battle and what’s next for gig workers Private hire driver and union organiser Yaseen Aslam speaks to Computer Weekly about his legal battle with Uber and what the UK Supreme Court ruling means to workers in the gig economy Share this item with your network: By Published: 12 Mar 2021 This includes the right to be paid the national minimum wage, to receive statutory minimum holiday pay and rest breaks, as well as protection...

Dutch court rejects Uber drivers’ ‘robo-firing’ charge but tells Ola to explain algo-deductions Uber has had a good result against litigation in the Netherlands, where its European business is headquartered, that had alleged it uses algorithms to terminate drivers — but which the court has rejected. The ride-hailing giant has also been largely successful in fending off wide-ranging requests for data from drivers wanting to obtain more of the personal data it holds on them. A number of U...

By Victor Omondi Things might not go entirely well with Uber, now that the UK Supreme Court has had its final say on the ruling on the relationship between Uber drivers and Uber, the company. The verdict could cause adverse effects to the gig economy. The company’s drivers well be enlisted for a minimum wage […]

Unions say questions are designed to help get sympathetic changes in employment law