In Aslam v Uber, Case 2202551 / 2015 at the London Central employment tribunal this week, Judge Snelson held the claimants were «workers» and therefore entitled to 5.6 weeks of paid annual leave, sick pay, a maximum 48 - hour working week, the national minimum wage and the protection
of whistleblowing legislation.
They do not need to provide riders any annual leave, the statutory minimum wage, the protections
of whistleblowing legislation, the right to claim unfair dismissal or trade union recognition rights.
Not exact matches
Michael: «I noticed from one
of your earlier blogs that Ontario passed
whistleblowing legislation in 2006, did this receive royal assent?»
He declined, and brought a claim for «compensation for detriment suffered by a worker as a result
of the making
of protected disclosures», under the «
whistleblowing»
legislation.
These results will be
of serious concern to international businesses, particularly bearing in mind the
whistleblowing provisions in the recently passed US Dodd - Frank
legislation, which offer a potentially significant reward to whistleblowers whose information leads to a successful prosecution.
While protection against reprisals appeared as one
of the new
legislation's aims, many commentators regret that the adopted project does not offer increased protection to a whistleblower and will, therefore, not encourage
whistleblowing in Switzerland.
On the question
of employer liability for the unpleasantness
of the other staff members, one problem is that, unlike the discrimination
legislation, the
whistleblowing provisions have no specific vicarious liability rules, but the EAT applied «ordinary» principles; in particular, they relied on Cumbria CC v Carlisle - Morgan [2007] IRLR 314.