Food delivery firm Deliveroo’s riders cannot be represented by a trade union for the purposes of collective bargaining, the United Kingdom’s Supreme Court ruled. Read the story here https://reut.rs/46rWrbd
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Delivery riders in the UK cannot be represented by a trade Union for the purposes of collective bargaining that was the Judgment from the supreme court on Tuesday the independent Workers Union of Great Britain or iwgb had tried to represent a group of deliveroo riders to negotiate paying conditions with the
Company the union was first refused permission six years ago on the basis Riders were not workers under UK labor law the iwgb later took its case to the UK’s highest courau in April it argued it was an unlawful interference with ryers human rights to deny the application to be recognized by deliver
For collective bargaining but in a unanimous decision the Supreme Court said Tuesday delu Riders do not have an employment relationship with deliveroo and were therefore not entitled to compulsory collective bargaining the Supreme Court said in its written ruling that delivery Riders could appoint a substitute to undertake a delivery it
Also said they can work for competitors do not have to work specific hours or even carry out deliveries at all the court decreed these features of the relationship between deliver and its Riders were fundamentally inconsistent with any notion of an employment relationship the iwgb called the ruling disappointing and said it was
Considering its options a deliver spokesperson said the decision was a positive judgment for Riders who they said value the flexibility self-employed work offers