UK Supreme Court Rules Against Uber in Employment-Status Case
19 February 2021 - 9:44PM
Dow Jones News
By Sam Schechner
Uber Technologies Inc. was required to pay minimum wage and
other benefits to a group of former drivers, the U.K.'s top court
ruled on Friday, dealing a setback to Uber and other gig-economy
companies in battles worldwide over their employment model.
The U.K.'s Supreme Court, in a decision issued Friday, upheld
lower court decisions that granted the group of 25 drivers a type
of U.K. employment status at Uber. The company had appealed those
rulings, maintaining that its car-service and food-delivery drivers
are independent contractors, without employee rights.
Write to Sam Schechner at sam.schechner@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
February 19, 2021 05:29 ET (10:29 GMT)
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