The Employment Appeal Tribunal has rejected the company’s argument that their drivers are self-employed contractors running their own businesses.
On average, self-employed people earn considerably less than those in employment.
Employment Tribunal finds that a group of Hermes couriers were entitled to receive the National Minimum Wage and holiday pay.
Workers in the ‘gig economy’ are set to benefit from a Supreme Court ruling on workers’ rights to holiday pay and other benefits.
New analysis by the TUC finds that one in nine workers are in insecure employment.
The Work and Pensions Committee says Universal Credit poses a “very real risk” to entrepreneurship and economic dynamism.
Universal Credit could risk adding to the financial instability of low-income workers, with the self-employed likely to come under most pressure, new research from Citizens Advice finds.
Almost 80 per cent of self-employed low-income households in London will be much worse off under Universal Credit.
The number of children in poverty has risen by 100,000 in the last year, with CPAG saying there is worse to come.
The designers of Universal Credit sold it as a simplification of the benefits system.
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