The higher costs for Uber come as it faces sliding driver bookings owing to the Covid-19 pandemic, despite strong demand for the Uber Eats food delivery service during national lockdowns. ― Reuters picLONDON, March 17 — Uber yesterday said it is granting its UK drivers worker status, with benefits including a minimum wage — a world first for the US ride-hailing giant.
From today, “more than 70,000 drivers in the UK will be treated as workers, earning at least the national living wage when driving with Uber,” the taxi app said in a statement.The court ruled last month that Uber’s drivers are entitled to worker’s rights. Uber did not expect the change in driver compensation to affect its net income this year, the company said in a US regulatory filing.
“This debunks nearly a decade of scare tactics from rideshare companies like Uber and makes clear that Uber can choose at any time to properly classify their drivers and pay them a living wage with good benefits,” SEIU president Mary Kay Henry said in response to an AFP inquiry. Proposition 22 — passed in November and heavily backed by Uber, Lyft and other app-based, on-demand delivery services — effectively overturned a state law requiring them to reclassify their drivers and provide employee benefits.
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