By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission kicked off a public consultation on Wednesday to determine whether to propose a law that .
Missing out on TERS may have been last straw for SA s Uber drivers, lawyers say Feb 24, 2021, 07:40 AM
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Drivers who work with the e-hailing app, Uber, are recognised as self-employed independent contractors and have limited rights.
A team of local lawyers, supported by a London firm which recently won a landmark case against Uber in the UK, has filed a class action lawsuit against Uber in South Africa.
They want Uber drivers to be identified as employees and be afforded rights through the Labour Relations Act and the Basic Conditions of Employment act.
Wednesday, February 24, 2021
After three years of uncertainty over the Serious Fraud Office’s (“
SFO”) powers to obtain documents located overseas, the UK Supreme Court has clarified the extraterritorial effect of the legislation facilitating that power domestically. The Supreme Court held that KBR, Inc., the U.S. engineering, procurement and construction company, was not required to provide the SFO with documents that were located overseas during a criminal investigation into its UK subsidiary, KBR Ltd.
The overturning of the High Court’s decision is significant in that it negates the misplaced request made by the SFO pursuant to section 2(3) of the Criminal Justice Act 1987 (the “