‘Hypocritical’ Just Eat Reverts Back To Self-Employed Drivers
Just Eat plans to make 1,700 couriers redundant from as the takeaway delivery firm reverts back to a gig economy model and scraps guaranteed minimum pay, sick pay and holiday pay. The couriers are currently engaged as ‘workers’ will be replaced by self-employed individuals. The decision has been described as “a risky move” and “hypocritical”, given […]
GMB Union Launches Collective Action On Paid Holiday
GMB Union has launched a collective grievance on behalf of its members against platform-based private hire firm Bolt. They are seeking to secure paid holiday for Bolt drivers who are engaged on a self-employed basis. There is already precedent for paid holiday in similar gig economy businesses, which according to GMB is an industry standard […]
GMB Union To Launch Legal Action Against Bolt
GMB Union has announced it will launch legal action against the platform-based private hire firm Bolt. Proceedings will be lodged with the Employment Tribunal in London on behalf of drivers over their classification as self-employed workers. According to GMB, Bolt continues to use a bogus self-employment model, denying drivers sick pay, pension rights and other […]
Controversial Union Recognition Deal at Deliveroo
GMB and Deliveroo have agreed a union recognition deal to represent Deliveroo’s 90k UK self-employed riders that work for the food delivery app. This means that GMB members “will have rights to collective bargaining on pay”, a condition which was excluded from the GMB’s deal with Uber last year. However, other key aspects of collective […]
Yodel Workers Set To Strike
The GMB union said around 250 drivers at delivery giant Yodel have voted to strike in a dispute over pay and working conditions. Interestingly, one reason they are planning a strike is due to agency workers being paid more than drivers employed directly by the company – perhaps a sign of the times with businesses […]