'Bogus self-employment': MPs slam Uber, Amazon & Deliveroo

With Uber, Deliveroo and Amazon making headlines for their “scare clause” contracts, a group of MPs has further condemned their employment practises as nothing short of “bogus self-employed designation”.

Chairman of the Work and Pensions Committee, Frank Field, said that these companies were “avoiding all their responsibilities” and added they should be made to justify employees being designated as self-employed.

Field also argued that a recent scheme to make Uber drivers pay for their own sickness insurance was “just another way of pushing costs on the workforce.”

PAYE employees have statutory sick-pay and cover as part of their employment package.