{"id":31852,"date":"2021-02-19T20:49:43","date_gmt":"2021-02-20T04:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=31852"},"modified":"2021-02-19T20:49:43","modified_gmt":"2021-02-20T04:49:43","slug":"uk-ruling-on-uber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=31852","title":{"rendered":"UK ruling on Uber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.K. Supreme Court unanimously ruled on Friday that Uber drivers are \u201cworkers\u201d for the company, rather than self-employed, a distinction that now forces the ride-sharing company to evaluate payments and benefits to its U.K. drivers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/sjvlwzjfpbbtgzgbtcmpptllpjthbjbddkpfzshbbbjkjb_lzwmjjgkgrmnmgwwdjkj.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/sjvlwzjfpbbtgzgbtcmpptllpjthbjbddkpfzshbbbjkjb_lzwmjjgkgrmnmgwwdjkj.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1613861671142000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGc8VXXYnEKrEB__YiEVw_XVJAiGw\">The Associated Press reported<\/a>\u00a0that the high court\u2019s seven judges upheld a lower court decision that Uber drivers were employees of the company, and therefore under British law are entitled to minimum wage, paid holidays and other benefits.<\/p>\n<p>Judge George Leggatt read out a summary of the ruling on a court livestream, stating, \u201cThe employment tribunal was right to find that Uber drivers are workers who therefore qualify for the rights conferred on workers by employment legislation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.K. Supreme Court unanimously ruled&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-u-s-a","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31853,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31852\/revisions\/31853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}