Uber Drivers Are Employees: New Ruling From The Netherlands

The Amsterdam Court of Appeal has ruled that Uber drivers are employees and that their services are covered by the collective agreement for taxi transport. The judgment held that the relationship between driver and platform was a 'modern employer-employee relationship'.

On 13 September 2021, a new judgment was added to the increasingly lengthy series of rulings on the gig economy and the question of whether platforms can also be employers. In the case brought by the FNV, one of the largest employee unions in the Netherlands, against Uber, the Amsterdam District Court has ruled that taxi drivers who offer their services via Uber meet the characteristics of an employment contract.