Uber operating companies and drivers during a virtual hearing in July. Uber operating companies, who say drivers are not workers, appealed to the Supreme Court after losing three earlier rounds of the fight.
In 2016, an employment tribunal ruled that Uber drivers were workers, and were entitled to workers’ rights.The ruling was upheld by an employment appeal tribunal, and by Court of Appeal judges - but lawyers representing Uber operating companies told Supreme Court justices that ruling was wrong.They said drivers did not “undertake to work” for Uber but were “independent, third party contractors”.But lawyers representing drivers said the tribunal was entitled to conclude that drivers were working and that Uber’s appeal should be.
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