Karga wrote:
It gets even more confusing with account work. PH op quotes the job, takes payment and then subs the work out to a HC. At no point in this chain is the passenger being charged by the HC driver for the work. Is there any case law on this?
You mean with regard to the employment status issue or the fare regulation dimension for HCs?
Haven't read the judgements, but assuming that the cash or account dimension would have been addressed in the Uber and Addison Lee cases on employment status. Instinctively I would guess that if the driver isn't billing the customer directly (or collecting cash from them) then that counts against the driver being self-employed.
Of course, since Uber is account work only in that case it's straightforward, but maybe not so much when there's a mix of cash and account work, as I suspect is the case in practice for most PHDs.