Bbc 6Pm News

[TWR]

regards Uber, this US Taxi firm in uproar because their driver have been awarded an increase in pay / Conditions, have you used this company?

[Islay]

Yes

[bednobs]

no

[scorpiojo]

No

[ichkeria]

The news was not that the drivers had been awarded a pay rise, but that they had won an employment tribunal : in future they will have to be given full workers' rights, including being paid the minimum wage

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-37802386

[derekpara]

No, and I never will. Dad was a London black cab driver.

[Peter Pedant]

long series of cases at the Employment tribunal that contracts whcih say this is not an employment contract is determined to be ..... an employment contract.
leading case is this I think

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ready_Mixed_Concrete_(South_East)_Ltd_v_Minister_of_Pensions_and_National_Insurance

a bit like Street v Mountford for leases.
( licences saying this is not a lease are construed as .... leases)

usually the reader will be glad to hear
a contract is a contract is a contract.....

[Peter Pedant]

a loose thinker from the Adam Smith institute was defending the employers view
with wizzy points like - but they can earn what they want when they want ( has he never heard of zero hours contracts ? )
and ... lots earn over the minimum ( well theyre not covered then )
and the great majority dont want this case ( fine they can work under the crappy conditions then )

he then said - many earn £10-20 a hour before expenses - which kinda in the taxi business I would rank expenses as high
and if expenses are 30% gross then you are down to minimum wage levels

[mikey4444]

I can't remember when I last used a taxi. This is a great success for the ordinary working person, and I applaud it wholeheartedly.