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The tests, the judgments, and the statutes that decide whether a worker is an employee — country by country, court by court.
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Covers the UK Supreme Court's February 2021 judgment in Uber BV v Aslam, tracing the argument through Employment Tribunal, Appeal, and Supreme Court and stating the holding on worker status.
A 2018 state supreme court ruling distilled decades of misclassification litigation into three sentences — and set off a political war that is still unresolved.
California passed the strictest worker-classification statute in the United States. The platforms spent $200 million overturning it at the ballot box.
A tax rule drafted to stop one trick became the defining instrument of British employment-status law — and is still contested in every forum that touches it.
How a plumbing dispute produced one of UK employment law's most durable rulings on worker status
When a legal system names something precisely, it usually means it has thought harder about it.
The EU Platform Work Directive took three years longer than anyone planned, shed several of its sharper provisions along the way, and still arrived as the most consequential piece of labour classification law the bloc had ever passed.
Eight landing pages. Every piece is reachable from one of them, or from the archive.