{"id":7495,"date":"2022-10-25T01:42:32","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T23:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/25\/new-zealand-uber-drivers-win-landmark-case-declaring-them-employees\/"},"modified":"2022-10-25T01:42:32","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T23:42:32","slug":"new-zealand-uber-drivers-win-landmark-case-declaring-them-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/25\/new-zealand-uber-drivers-win-landmark-case-declaring-them-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand Uber drivers win landmark case declaring them employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uber said it would appeal against the decision, which judge said \u2018may well\u2019 affect other drivers\u2019 status and entitle them to workers\u2019 rights and protections<\/p>\n<p>A group of New Zealand Uber drivers have won a landmark case against the global ridesharing company, forcing it to treat them as employees, not contractors, and entitling them to a suite of worker rights and protections.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s employment court ruled on Tuesday that the drivers were employees, not independent contractors. While the ruling applies specifically to the case of four drivers, the court noted that it may have wider implications for drivers across the country.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/oct\/25\/new-zealand-uber-drivers-win-landmark-case-declaring-them-employees\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/af17cd44c1a185dfe24bbd4f9d65657925f39da9\/0_0_5568_3341\/master\/5568.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=375cac5d84a0539e7a737ee4ea961a72\" title=\"New Zealand Uber drivers win landmark case declaring them employees\" \/>Uber said it would appeal against the decision, which judge said \u2018may well\u2019 affect other drivers\u2019 status and entitle them to workers\u2019 rights and protections<br \/>\nA group of New Zealand Uber drivers have won a landmark case against the global ridesharing company, forcing it to treat them as employees, not contractors, and entitling them to a suite of worker rights and protections.<br \/>\nNew Zealand\u2019s employment court ruled on Tuesday that the drivers were employees, not independent contractors. While the ruling applies specifically to the case of four drivers, the court noted that it may have wider implications for drivers across the country. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uber said it would appeal against the decision, which judge said \u2018may well\u2019 affect other drivers\u2019 status and entitle them to workers\u2019 rights and protections A group of New Zealand Uber drivers have won a landmark case against the global ridesharing company, forcing it to treat them as employees, not contractors, and entitling them to &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/25\/new-zealand-uber-drivers-win-landmark-case-declaring-them-employees\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Zealand Uber drivers win landmark case declaring them employees<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7496,"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\/7495"}],"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=7495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}