Aussie Uber contractors: According to a recent report in Accountancy Daily an Australian court has ruled that Uber drivers should be treated as contractors for tax and employment purposes and not as employees. This is a...
Read MoreUber v Aslam Uber drivers in the United Kingdom have been held by the Court of Appeal in Uber B.V. (“UBV”) & Ors v Aslam & Ors [2018] EWCA Civ 2748 to be ‘workers’ for the purposes of the national minimum...
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Read MoreIt is reported by the media that the UK employment tribunal has decided that the relationship between Uber and its drivers is one of employment despite the contrary contentions of Uber. If that ruling is eventually upheld on...
Read More“The complaint by the metered taxi industry to the Competition Commission alleging that app-based transportation company Uber is engaging in predatory pricing and anti-competitive behaviour has been dealt a blow. On...
Read More“But fast-forward to a more up-to-date workplace and the clerk has disappeared; in her or his place is a QR (“quick response code”) reader where customers swipe their documents and there is no queue. In the same way, customers...
Read MoreThe nature of a ‘job’ is changing and the internet is giving birth to what Gillian Tett calls ‘digital sharecroppers’; people who do not have secure employment. They work on demand. Gillian Tett mentions that Paul Mason...
Read MoreInnovative cellphone services are making it easier, quicker and cheaper for consumers to get what they want. Their liberation is denounced by anticonsumer interests and activists as “unfair”, “dangerous”...
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