{"id":633,"date":"2021-02-22T18:14:08","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T17:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/22\/uber-accused-of-trying-to-deter-drivers-from-seeking-compensation\/"},"modified":"2021-02-22T18:14:08","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T17:14:08","slug":"uber-accused-of-trying-to-deter-drivers-from-seeking-compensation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/22\/uber-accused-of-trying-to-deter-drivers-from-seeking-compensation\/","title":{"rendered":"Uber accused of trying to deter drivers from seeking compensation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawyers acting for claimants say firm\u2019s statement after last week\u2019s supreme court ruling is misleading<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/uber\">Uber<\/a> has been accused of trying to deter drivers from seeking compensation for missed holiday and minimum wage payments after a landmark court ruling.<\/p>\n<p>The taxi-hailing app may have to pay out more than \u00a3100m to more than 10,000 drivers involved in cases linked to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/feb\/19\/uber-drivers-workers-uk-supreme-court-rules-rights\">the UK supreme court ruled<\/a> on Friday that they must be classified as workers. Uber has previously argued that its 60,000 UK drivers are self-employed independent contractors with no right to holiday pay, a company pension or the national minimum wage.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/feb\/22\/uber-accused-of-trying-to-deter-drivers-from-seeking-compensation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/5f96b2adcf207329cb75130255db13feaa90cb04\/0_232_3500_2101\/master\/3500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=d70d2ebef25aefafa0f36398ed271913\" title=\"Uber accused of trying to deter drivers from seeking compensation\" \/>Lawyers acting for claimants say firm\u2019s statement after last week\u2019s supreme court ruling is misleading<br \/>\nUber has been accused of trying to deter drivers from seeking compensation for missed holiday and minimum wage payments after a landmark court ruling.<br \/>\nThe taxi-hailing app may have to pay out more than \u00a3100m to more than 10,000 drivers involved in cases linked to a the UK supreme court ruled on Friday that they must be classified as workers. Uber has previously argued that its 60,000 UK drivers are self-employed independent contractors with no right to holiday pay, a company pension or the national minimum wage. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawyers acting for claimants say firm\u2019s statement after last week\u2019s supreme court ruling is misleading Uber has been accused of trying to deter drivers from seeking compensation for missed holiday and minimum wage payments after a landmark court ruling. The taxi-hailing app may have to pay out more than \u00a3100m to more than 10,000 drivers &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/22\/uber-accused-of-trying-to-deter-drivers-from-seeking-compensation\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Uber accused of trying to deter drivers from seeking compensation<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":634,"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\/633"}],"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=633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}