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I'll think you find that Uber drivers also want to be self employed. There is only 2 drivers who led this case, and they currently work for some private taxi c

• hythloday 10y ago
  And all people on zero-hours contracts love that and all children who worked in factories were violently against being sent to school.
  • UK-AL 10y ago
    There's a whole class of workers want the flexibility. Students, people who can only work a few hours. Etc
    • IanCal 10y ago
      And this ruling won't in any way affect that. There's nothing in the definition of worker that has regular hours.
• anexprogrammer 10y ago
  Certainly not the impression I've got from media reports of demos and Uber Eat strike days etc. The reality is probably somewhere in the middle. For drivers I don't understand the appeal of being self employed there's nothing to gain by it. If they still want to show they're operating as self employed they can with a b2b relationship with Uber, website and advertising, exercising right of substitution, and all the other HMRC indicators of being in business.
• pmyteh 10y ago
  The two drivers are test plaintiffs. It's the British legal system's alternative to the class action, where a few representative claimants are chosen for a full trial, and the parties agree that the legal result controls the other cases. I don't know how many are in the '& others' in this case.