In this case an employment tribunal had to decide whether the claimant taxi drivers were ‘employees’ of the defendants or self-employed. If they were deemed as ‘employees’, then they would be covered by the national minimum wage regulations and be entitled to such expected benefits as holiday pay, neither of which they received. The defendants had maintained that the drivers were self-employed and not entitled to such benefits. In consideration, the tribunal applied each of the tests of employment, for example, control and mutuality of obligation, while looking inter alia at the following facts:
■ Uber gives drivers the first name of passengers, but not their surname.
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