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James O'Brien - The Whole Show

Uber drivers are workers, UK supreme court rules

James O'Brien - The Whole Show

Global

Daily News, News

4.5840 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2021

⏱️ 136 minutes

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This is a catch-up version of James O'Brien's live, daily show on LBC Radio; to join the conversation call: 0345 60 60 973

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0:00.0

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0:23.2

Couldn't have explained your pet insurance deal better myself.

0:25.2

Britain, get in on a tash action.

0:27.4

Be savvy. Fill the deal at... Go dot compare!

0:31.8

This is LBC, from Global, leading Britain's conversation with James O'Brien

0:38.4

Three minutes after ten is the time

0:46.7

you are listening to James O'Brien

0:48.2

on LBC

0:48.9

where you have no idea

0:50.9

how reassuring

0:53.2

I found it to hear Nick Ferrari expressing a degree of confusion and

0:57.8

befuddlement when responding to this story from Uber because as you know Nick is one of the

1:03.3

people I generally cite when I am describing my own uselessness at knowing what is a big story

1:08.9

and what is not so for once we're sort of swimming in similar

1:12.9

directions because I think at first glance this is potentially absolutely epic. As is often the

1:20.0

case, of course, at second glance it may turn out not to be, but the Supreme Court has ruled,

1:25.6

Supreme Court justices have ruled, against Uber operating companies

1:29.8

and concluded that drivers should be classed as workers, which immediately brings them, my

1:35.2

cursory understanding, into minimum wage legislation and things like all the things that go

1:42.1

with being an employee. They can no longer be classed as

1:45.5

independent third-party contractors. Theo Usherwood is with me. You're, I think, less flustered and

1:53.4

confused than me and Nick at the moment. So there's an important question I asked and I didn't

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