Author: Louise Mason

EAT holds that DPD’s delivery drivers were neither workers nor employees

Employment status questions continue to play out before the UK’s employment tribunals. While the recent trend has been to find that individuals working in the gig economy have worker status, in Stojsavljevic v DPD Group UK Ltd, the EAT has held that DPD’s delivery drivers were neither workers nor employees. Instead, it found that the franchise agreement in place between the parties reflected the reality of their working arrangements allowing the claimants to use substitute drivers and not requiring personal performance of the delivery work.