UK Supreme Court judgment in the Uber v Aslam case has affected the common law relating to employment relationship. This could have ramifications in other jurisdictions, such as South Asia, which follow the principles of English Common Law in determining the existence of an employment relationship.
The long-standing case of Uber and others v. Aslam and others (2016) was finally settled by the UK Supreme Court that confirmed the views of the lower Courts stating Uber’s drivers status of “workers” within the UK legal system
The Supreme Court also determined what must be considered as working time for a Uber driver
The German Federal Labour Court (No. 9 AZR 102/201, 1 December 2020) re-classified the crowdworker as an employee
It determined also that for remuneration purposes, the company shall not be bound by pre-established fees that the worker received as a self-employed worker.
The European Court of Justice issued an Order confirming its jurisprudence on the exclusion of genuine self-employed from the application of certain European regulations