An employment law specialist has raised concerns over employment contracts signed by self-employed contractors with the online take-away delivery platform Deliveroo. Bike, moped, and car drivers, who are classed as self-employed, deliver orders from restaurants to customers. Richard Grogan of Dublin firm Richard Grogan and Associates reviewed the contract Deliveroo issues to its couriers here. In 2017, Deliveroo won a landmark UK labour court ruling when the Central Arbitration Committee upheld the company’s claims that Deliveroo drivers can be defined as self-employed. A British union had argued that Deliveroo drivers in Camden and Kentish Town were workers, with rights to minimum wage and sick pay.

Source: Irish Examiner February 20, 2019 06:00 UTC