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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 that work for Uber and for those who earn on our platform,” he wrote. ADVERTISEMENT The designation...

Uber agrees to pay British drivers minimum wage, time off, other benefits By (0) While Uber's 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 withdraw from the country altogether. The move appears to put an end to a dispute that's been going...

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. Uber said that beginning Wednesday all drivers in the U.K. will be paid holiday time based on 12.07%...

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 on them. The court also rejected both firms’ claims that drivers were abusing their data access ri...