Uber drivers await tribunal verdict on employment status

Judgment over whether taxi app is acting unlawfully by not offering holiday and sick pay could be delivered on Wednesday

Tens of thousands of Uber drivers in the UK could qualify for holiday and sick pay when an employment tribunal reconvenes in London on Wednesday, in what has been heralded as the employment law case of the year.

In July lawyers representing 19 drivers contested their status as self-employed workers. They argued that the drivers' employment terms and conditions meant they were not technically self-employed and should therefore be entitled to a range of benefits such as pension contributions as well as holiday and sick pay.