Hundreds of Shuffle drivers won their staunch suppose to be recognised as workers, securing rights to paid holidays and a minimal wage.

After the landmark ruling, handed down by an employment tribunal on Friday, legislation agency Leigh Day said the compensation owed to the 15,000 drivers they represent also can very properly be fee more than £200m.

The tribunal obvious that the connection between Shuffle and its drivers doesn’t listing self-employment, as claimed by Shuffle, nonetheless moderately an employment diagram, granting the drivers crucial worker protections under employment legislation.

It impacts the entire 100,000-plus drivers who rob on work thru the Shuffle breeze hailing app, Leigh Day said.

This resolution became once reached following a 3-week listening to in September 2024.

Leigh Day, who moreover represented Uber drivers in a same worthwhile suppose in 2021, contends that each and each Shuffle driver also can very properly be entitled to over £15,000 in backdated compensation for underpayment and unpaid holiday pay.

The ruling impacts over 100,000 drivers the usage of Shuffle’s non-public rent hailing app, who can now seek worker insist.

Forward of the listening to, Shuffle announced it would beginning offering holiday pay and the nationwide living wage from August 2024.

The tribunal dominated drivers wants to be compensated now now not handiest for trips nonetheless moreover for time spent logged into the app, equipped they are now not logged into varied non-public rent apps simultaneously.

Extra hearings are scheduled to resolve the true compensation amounts for the affected drivers.

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Leigh Day employment solicitor Charlotte Pettman said the ruling marks a necessary step forward in securing incandescent treatment for gig economic system workers.

“We are very fully cheerful that the employment tribunal has chanced on in favour of our Shuffle driver purchasers,” Ms Pettman said.

“This judgment confirms that gig economic system operators cannot proceed to falsely classify their workers as neutral contractors running their possess trade to preserve away from offering the rights these workers are properly entitled to.”

“We call on Shuffle to compensate our purchasers without additional lengthen,” she added.

Shuffle, which has its headquarters in Estonia, has yet to comment on the tribunal’s resolution.

A parallel suppose on behalf of plenty of Ola drivers is due to be heard by the London Central Employment Tribunal from Tuesday. It’s scheduled to final for eight days.