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Food delivery couriers wanted a union to negotiate conditions and holidays
An online marketplace for freelance professionals may be a glimpse of the future
Updated welfare and employment laws needed to adapt to fast change in labour dynamics
Deliveroo dilemma: what obligations do tech companies have to society?
Union brings judicial review challenge arguing collective bargaining should be allowed
Tribunal rules that drivers for minicab company are staff not self-employed
Prime minister backs recommendations to scrap agency worker loophole on pay
Courts have misunderstood relationship between group and drivers, company says
Platforms focus on remote service sector work — think of eBay for human labour
Bullet journals and playful entrepreneurs — a round-up of this month’s top titles
The gig economy is a boon for EM workers but policymakers must look out for the losers
Freelancers are setting up low-cost shared offices at home — but can they stop chatting?
(with apologies to Voltaire)
On-demand meal companies such as Meituan and Deliveroo are more disruptive than Uber
Flexible working is touted as the future but too often resembles an exploitative past
Labour risks alienating employers with efforts to tackle insecurity
John McDonnell’s father and grandfather were casual workers at Liverpool docks
Shadow chancellor John McDonnell takes on insecure working practices and low wages
The gig economy has not eliminated issues of power between workers and employers
When his self-employment worries escalated, a writer found it hard to ask for help
Union says company’s employment practices contradict data protection obligations
Move would ease compliance burden and increase payments to Treasury
Lessons from the electrician, plumber and chimney sweep’s plans, or lack of them
Didi dominates ride-hailing in China but FTCR data highlight vulnerability
A UK employment tribunal ruled the couriers were workers rather than self employed
