This petition was submitted during the 2017-2019 parliament
Rejected petition Means test food couriers if they should be employed or be self employed.
Food couriers that work for companies like Deliveroo, UberEats, Stuart, JustEat and various other flavours. Have been recruited and they either work solely for the one company for more than 37 hours a week and those that don't make enough money, may work across other companies.
More details
Please refer to these links on the California Bill to determine whether independent contractors are really independent or not.
This bill has been passed by the US but there is not a UK equivalent.
Please refer to Frank Field MPs PDF below.
http://www.frankfield.co.uk/upload/docs/Legalising%20the%20gig%20economy.pdf
This petition was rejected
Why was this petition rejected?
It’s not clear what the petition is asking the UK Government or Parliament to do.
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We understand you're concerned about food couriers but we're not sure exactly what you'd like the Government or Parliament to do. In particular, we're not sure what you mean by a means test or in what cirucmstances you want people to be recognised as employees.
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