Addison Lee has become the latest company to face defeat in court over its treatment of workers as “independent contractors” without rights to holiday pay or the national minimum wage. Source: Addison Lee suffers latest defeat in legal row over gig economy rights | Business | The Guardian
Month: August 2017
This approach would require full transparency to be successful. That’s a stretch for Uber, but for all markets as well, because capitalism has tended to build profit based on information asymmetries. The “ability to trade with everyone” demands that Uber become an information conduit along the lines of a utility or a regulated trading system. […]