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UK Uber drivers have been offered a special deal giving them access to basic employment rights such as sick pay and injury cover.

The taxi app has teamed up with the Association of Independent Professionals & the Self-Employed (IPSE) to provide its 40,000 UK drivers with the new service. The deal marks the first major response to wider criticism over the lack of rights for gig economy workers.

As part of a bespoke membership package with IPSE, a £2 per week payment will give Uber drivers access to a service that reflects a more traditional model of employment.

In other words uber are taking out an insurance policy which the drivers MUST pay for

Some of the benefits now afforded to Uber drivers include sickness and injury cover up to £2,000 and jury service cover up to £2,000. IPSE has said it will also provide free tax and personal finance advice with the aim of supporting the long-term futures of Uber drivers.

However, the service will only be available to Uber drivers who have completed at least 500 trips via the app. In this sense, it is a solution for those relying on Uber as a long-term form of employment.

Commenting on the partnership with Uber, Chris Bryce, IPSE chief executive, said the organisation was “delighted” with the venture and clarified the organisation’s position on representing workers in the gig economy.

“IPSE worked hard with Uber to develop a membership offering for this growing part of self-employment. Bringing drivers who use the app into its membership is part of IPSE’s mission to better reflect the reality of self-employment in the UK,” Bryce said in a statement.

Announcing the deal, the app’s UK manager Jo Betram said a majority of Uber drivers “love the freedom of being their own boss and choosing if, when and where they drive”.

“We want Uber to be the best possible experience so we’ll carry on listening to drivers about further improvements we can make to our app,” she added.

A tribunal in October 2016 ruled in favour of Uber drivers against the company, stating employees were entitled to workplace benefits such as holiday pay, sick leave and the National Living Wage.

To explain why self-employment was an insufficient way of describing the work of Uber drivers, the tribunal’s judges maintained the nature of work was “strictly on Uber’s terms”.

“The notion that Uber in London is a mosaic of 30,000 small businesses linked by a common ‘platform’ is to our minds faintly ridiculous,” the judges said.

A new study from the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) has revealed as many as 1.1m people are working in Britain’s gig economy – almost as many as the NHS.

RSA claimed its survey was the most substantial yet into the model of employment, and suggested as many as eight million people were interested in working in the gig economy.

To cope with these expectations, RSA called on government to deliver an effective response that ensures the industry is committed to “good work”, and giving workers more power to hold employers to account.

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lack of modern legislation is the iceberg sinking the titanic of the transport sector

Nothing like a base of 300 paying rent in weekly then..........

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Of all the things ive lost, i miss my mind the most

Uber just don't get it.

They really don't get it.

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IDFIMH

They're thick, they're American, they voted for Trump. Says it all.

Bless them.

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Grandad,

They are stupid...........with 42,000 drivers

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Of all the things ive lost, i miss my mind the most

UBER Supported of course by those well known /TORY VERMIN Cameron Osborne and Johnson strange how our resident Tory lickspittle forgot that aint it

Any organisation depriving workers of their rights will always be supported by TORYS........................penny dropped YET

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I AM PROUD TO BE A CITIZEN NOBODY'S SUBJECT http://www.republic.org.u

F88K EM ALL WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND

BOOZE BOOZE BOOZE

Our resident TORY cant think of an answer on this one even the LTDA were picketing the Evening Standard offices yesterday about OSBORNES connection with and support for UBER Which of course continues from him the Cameron dick head and Bonkers Boris

Come Grandad Tory boy justify their actions

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All posts by this contributor are made in a strictly personal capacity

I AM PROUD TO BE A CITIZEN NOBODY'S SUBJECT http://www.republic.org.u

F88K EM ALL WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND

BOOZE BOOZE BOOZE

Why would I justify their actions?

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Grandad,

Can someone explain the difference between UBER and any old circuit/base? (ignoring the latter has a human (ish) answering the phones)?

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Of all the things ive lost, i miss my mind the most

The customer pays you.

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Justice for the 96. It has only taken 27 years...........repeat the same lies for 27 years and the truth sounds strange to people!

Not always................................. if its account through a base...

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Of all the things ive lost, i miss my mind the most

but do the base charge the customer VAT....

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Justice for the 96. It has only taken 27 years...........repeat the same lies for 27 years and the truth sounds strange to people!

if the base is vat regd ...yes, if not..........no

and?

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Of all the things ive lost, i miss my mind the most

Admit it Mr T, your struggling to find the Anti-Uber clause int ya

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Of all the things ive lost, i miss my mind the most