United Kingdom - Gig economy contracts questioned - April 30, 2017

The Work and Pensions Committee in parliament has published the contracts it has received in its inquiry into Self-employment and the gig economy, and related correspondence. Some of the problems of the contracts - the clauses they contain and the way they are written - were highlighted in the evidence session with Uber, Hermes, Deliveroo and Amazon, and the Committee asked to see copies of them, which they have now supplied. The Committee’s chair stated that these companies parade the ‘flexibility’ their model offers to drivers but it seems the only real flexibility is enjoyed by the companies themselves.

English: http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees ...  

For more information, please contact the editor Jan Cremers, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS) cbn-aias@uva.nl or the communications officer at the ETUI, Willy De Backer wdebacker@etui.org. For previous issues of the Collective bargaining newsletter please visit http://www.etui.org/E-Newsletters/Collective-bargaining-newsletter. Since June 2013 readers can consult our archive and search through all articles in our database at www.cbnarchive.euYou may find further information on the ETUI at www.etui.org, and on the AIAS at www.uva-aias.net.

© ETUI aisbl, Brussels 2016. All rights reserved. We encourage the distribution of this newsletter and of the information it contains, for non-commercial purposes and provided the source is credited. The ETUI is not responsible for the content of external internet sites. The ETUI is financially supported by the European Union. The European Union is not responsible for any use made of the information contained in this publication.
This email is sent from www.etui.org.

Check Out WageIndicator's Newsletters on Gig Work

News Archive

Loading...