> What does rest mean when someone can stop working at any time? It means that once you've been working for a given period of time you get a short period of (p

> What does rest mean when someone can stop working at any time? It means that once you've been working for a given period of time you get a short period of (paid) time-off. A few lines of code in the scheduler to not assign work for 15 minutes to people in this position, and a corresponding credit in the billing system, would do. The point applies more generally. I had a zero-hours contract with my university to teach very irregular hours on some IT training courses. I was entitled to holiday pay like every other worker. It accrued at a rate of something like one hour for every ten hours I worked, and was added to my pay. This form of working isn't in any way new; piecework, home working, day labour and similar things have existed for as long as employment law has, and there are low friction solutions already in place to make meal breaks, holidays and minimum wage calculations work. The tribunal judges here specifically ruled on when Uber drivers are working (in licensed area with app switched on) so everything else is pretty straightforward from an implementation point of view.