Feb 22, 2017
Gig economy chiefs defend business model
Some five million people work in the so-called "Gig" economy. The managing director of online delivery food service Deliveroo, Dan Warne, said flexibility was extremely important to its riders because 85% of them used it as a supplementary income stream, working on average 15 hours a week. He said its business model also allowed people to work for competitors and no-one was penalised if they did not turn up for work. Rew Byrne, Uber's head of public policies in the UK, said: "94% of people when we ask them to say the thing they like about working for Uber is the freedom to choose their own hours and that is something that is difficult to hold on to in a market where you have different requirements and different working models." The online private hire company is currently appealing against an employment tribunal ruling from last year that said UK Uber drivers can be classed as workers and not as self-employed.
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