Taxis lined up on Fleet Street during a protest by the United Cabbies Group (UCG). Anthony Devlin/PA Archive/PA Images. All rights reserved.
The conventional understanding surrounding work divides employment into two categories: employee and self-employed. The former offers more rights but less flexibility, the latter offers more flexibility but with no rights at all. These are helpful umbrella terms but they aren’t as black and white as they may seem.
As long as confusion reigns companies such as Deliveroo and Uber operate in a de-regulated environment, expanding rapidly and raking in huge sums of money.
