Tag Archives: uber

End of the Road for Uber?

Posted on February 21, 2021 by Darren Newman

One of the things I like about the Supreme Court is its lack of grandeur. People often associate the English legal system with all manner of flummery – wigs, gowns, archaic language, soaring rhetoric  and elaborate ceremony. You get none … Continue reading →

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How Uber could win in the Employment Appeal Tribunal

Posted on September 28, 2017 by Darren Newman

I spent yesterday sitting in the public gallery of the Employment Appeal Tribunal (if you can call five rows of seats the back of a big room a ‘gallery’) listening to Dinah Rose QC argue that the Employment Tribunal was … Continue reading →

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Why Uber lost in the Employment Tribunal

Posted on October 29, 2016 by Darren Newman

  Uber drivers are not employees and don’t let anyone tell you different. On the other hand,  in Aslam & others v Uber BV and others the Tribunal did hold that they were ‘workers’. Being a worker is different from being an employee. … Continue reading →

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