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Description

Summary and Dispute: Two delivery drivers took legal action against Deliveroo, disputing their employment status as self-employed workers. The dispute centres on whether they should be classified as employees or self-employed individuals.

Defendant's Reasons for Claiming Employee Status: The drivers likely argued that Deliveroo exerted significant control over their work, similar to an employer-employee relationship, by:

• Allocating responsibilities and enabling them to perform tasks through algorithms (organising function)

• Providing detailed instructions on how tasks must be carried out (directing function)

• Continuously monitoring performance metrics and enforcing adherence to platform standards (controlling function)

• Possibly using algorithms to facilitate communication and coordination between workers, clients, and the platform (organising function)

The court ruled in favour of the drivers, determining they were employees.

Motivation for Ruling: - Control over work and allocation of tasks

• Continuous monitoring of performance

• Provision of detailed instructions

• Enforcement of platform standards

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Additional metadata

Actors

Employee organisation, Court

Sector

Transportation and storage

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