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THE Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB) applied today for a judicial review of a decision that Deliveroo couriers are not classified as workers.
In November, the Central Arbitration Committee (CAC) ruled that the company’s couriers are not workers and therefore are not entitled to collective bargaining rights, holiday pay or the minimum wage.
The CAC stated that it considered the substitution clause within Deliveroo’s rider contract, which granted couriers the right to find a substitute person to do their deliveries, to be genuine, meaning couriers were formally independent contractors.
The unions are unhappy with the Employment Rights Act 2025 and with good reason. KEITH EWING and Lord JOHN HENDY KC take a close look at why the Bill promised more than it delivered
The Bill addresses some exploitation but leaves trade unions heavily regulated, most workers without collective bargaining coverage, and fails to tackle the balance of power that enables constant mutation of bad practice, write KEITH EWING and LORD JOHN HENDY KC
It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR