Bolt drivers win right to holiday and minimum wage

Thousands of drivers moving for ride-hailing and nutrient transportation app Bolt person won a ineligible assertion to beryllium classed arsenic workers successful the UK alternatively than self-employed.

The ruling means drivers could beryllium entitled to vacation wage and minimum wage, which lawyers said could pb to compensation worthy much than £200m.

Bolt said it was reviewing its options, including grounds for appeal.

It pointed retired that the findings of the Employment Tribunal were confined to drivers who were not connected aggregate ride-hailing apps.

About 10,000 existent and erstwhile Bolt drivers took ineligible enactment against the Estonian-headquartered steadfast astatine a London employment tribunal.

They argued they were formally workers nether British law.

Bolt said it had "always supported" the "choice" of drivers "to stay self-employed autarkic contractors".

But the tribunal recovered that "overwhelmingly, the powerfulness lies with Bolt".

"There is thing successful the narration which demands, oregon adjacent suggests, agency" connected the portion of the drivers, it said.

The tribunal added that "the expected declaration betwixt the Bolt operator and the rider is simply a fabrication designed by Bolt – and successful peculiar its lawyers – to decision the statement that it has an employer/worker narration with the driver".