Uber Articles

Being pro-innovation should not allow us to be indifferent to corporate excess, says Wes Streeting 'Defend the livelihoods of 40,000 drivers’. ‘Protect consumer choice for 3.5 million Londoners’. ‘800,000 people have supported our petition’. Uber can be criticised for...

Workers in the gig economy deserve to be treated fairly and equitably – and it will take more than government intervention to make that happen, says Andy Cook, chief executive of Marshall-James Our ‘always on’ culture has only been made possible by shifting the norms...

Employment law must be changed to protect the army of working people toiling away in today's 'gig economy', writes work and pensions select committee chair Frank Field MP A little over a century ago, Beatrice and Sidney Webb set out the bones of a labour code which...

It is time for Labour to lead the debate on the digitalised economy Labour, and the liberal left more widely, have been dealt a series of hammer blows. Crushing election defeats in 2010 and 2015 illustrated a lack of trust in centre-left economics. The Brexit vote and...