£2million payout | Bolt drivers win right to holiday, minimum wage, and worker status

15,000 drivers who provide services to ride-hailing app Bolt should be classified as employees and are therefore entitled to workers’ rights, a tribunal has ruled.

According to Leigh Day, the legal firm representing the drivers, the drivers could be owed compensation totaling over £200million.

The drivers won their fight to be classed as employees following the conclusion of a tribunal in September. The victory offers them worker status, entitling them to basic rights like minimum wage and holiday pay, as well as employment law protections.

The tribunal ruled Bolt must also compensate drivers for the full time they are logged into the app, rather than solely for the duration of the trips they complete—so long as they are not logged into other similar ride-hailing driver platforms at the same time.