{"id":3235,"date":"2021-10-13T10:43:25","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T08:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/13\/amazon-could-owe-drivers-thousands-in-rights-claim-says-law-firm\/"},"modified":"2021-10-13T10:43:25","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T08:43:25","slug":"amazon-could-owe-drivers-thousands-in-rights-claim-says-law-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/13\/amazon-could-owe-drivers-thousands-in-rights-claim-says-law-firm\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon could owe drivers thousands in rights claim, says law firm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leigh Day launches group action for drivers classed as self-employed and not entitled to employee rights<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/amazon\">Amazon<\/a> could owe compensation totalling \u00a3140m to thousands of drivers delivering its parcels, according to a law firm that is launching a group claim on their behalf.<\/p>\n<p>Drivers who deliver for Amazon through its \u201cdelivery service partners\u201d are classed as self-employed, meaning they are not entitled to employee rights such as holiday pay and the minimum wage, while they also do not have an employment contract.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/oct\/13\/amazon-could-owe-drivers-rights-claim-says-law-firm-leigh-day\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/9f367a46c5faacfe99592899b07bf8cef1eb7e24\/0_134_4864_2918\/master\/4864.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=b863f3782807f4b8f214c98bc4b2bcdd\" title=\"Amazon could owe drivers thousands in rights claim, says law firm\" \/>Leigh Day launches group action for drivers classed as self-employed and not entitled to employee rights<br \/>\nAmazon could owe compensation totalling \u00a3140m to thousands of drivers delivering its parcels, according to a law firm that is launching a group claim on their behalf.<br \/>\nDrivers who deliver for Amazon through its \u201cdelivery service partners\u201d are classed as self-employed, meaning they are not entitled to employee rights such as holiday pay and the minimum wage, while they also do not have an employment contract. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leigh Day launches group action for drivers classed as self-employed and not entitled to employee rights Amazon could owe compensation totalling \u00a3140m to thousands of drivers delivering its parcels, according to a law firm that is launching a group claim on their behalf. Drivers who deliver for Amazon through its \u201cdelivery service partners\u201d are classed &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/13\/amazon-could-owe-drivers-thousands-in-rights-claim-says-law-firm\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Amazon could owe drivers thousands in rights claim, says law firm<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}