Uber Sheffield suspended from 16th December.

[actionman]

Every uber cab in sheffield is regulated the same as any phv. Part time work = part time wage

 

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I doubt if they have as much flexibility as uber drivers. Can you imagine what would happen if a driver for a taxi company started to pick and choose which rides he would carry, which routes he would take on, which days he would turn up for work etc.? Many uber drivers used to work for taxi firms, but have decided that uber offers them advantages. The uber driver I used this morning told me that he used to work for a large taxi firm in Sheffield but got fed up of the best rides being given to a clique of drivers. In other words, he was saying that he didn't have control. Uber drivers by contrast can choose when, how, how often and where they work.

 

Based on my discussions with many uber drivers over the last two years, the reasons why these drivers choose uber vary somewhat, but flexibility and being their own boss come high on the list.

 

Some have their own business projects in mind and are using uber as a stop gap, until their business takes off. Others have part-time jobs, So are using uber to supplement their income. Others are migrants, whose work opportunities in other fields may be limited. I have met also a small number of ex-senior managers who have been made redundant and can't get jobs in their field because of their age. One guy I met in his late fifties recently said he had applied for hundreds of management jobs but had not even been given a single interview. He said that he had come to like uber because it gave him more time to see his grandkids and to pursue his hobbies.

Its exactly the same for any taxi driver in sheffield. All self employed we can come and go and pick and chose as and when we want.

[Cyclone]

I doubt if they have as much flexibility as uber drivers. Can you imagine what would happen if a driver for a taxi company started to pick and choose which rides he would carry, which routes he would take on, which days he would turn up for work etc.? Many uber drivers used to work for taxi firms, but have decided that uber offers them advantages. The uber driver I used this morning told me that he used to work for a large taxi firm in Sheffield but got fed up of the best rides being given to a clique of drivers. In other words, he was saying that he didn't have control. Uber drivers by contrast can choose when, how, how often and where they work.

 

Based on my discussions with many uber drivers over the last two years, the reasons why these drivers choose uber vary somewhat, but flexibility and being their own boss come high on the list.

 

Some have their own business projects in mind and are using uber as a stop gap, until their business takes off. Others have part-time jobs, So are using uber to supplement their income. Others are migrants, whose work opportunities in other fields may be limited. I have met also a small number of ex-senior managers who have been made redundant and can't get jobs in their field because of their age. One guy I met in his late fifties recently said he had applied for hundreds of management jobs but had not even been given a single interview. He said that he had come to like uber because it gave him more time to see his grandkids and to pursue his hobbies.

 

You're describing exactly how most taxi companies operate. They charge to hire out the equipment to drivers, but the drivers are self employed and independent, they do precisely what you've described of deciding when to work, where to work and so on.

[Jeffrey Shaw]

Yet there seems to be a move to treat drivers as employees, with employees' rights.

[Cyclone]

From Uber? Only where they are being forced by legislation or license negotiations.

[Jeffrey Shaw]

From Uber? Only where they are being forced by legislation or license negotiations.

Or the ECJ! See http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-42423627

[Blue Day]

Yet there seems to be a move to treat drivers as employees, with employees' rights.

 

Problem with Uber in that respect is, they have to pay the drivers their money because Uber take all the fares via the app. All other taxi drivers mostly take cash and pay the taxi company their rent money every week.

 

However I still can’t understand why an Uber driver took them to court to be recognised as an employee and not self employed. Taxi drivers have always been self employed, it’s the major perk that attracts the drivers. If you got the chance to look at a taxi drivers yearly returns, you’d see the majority earn less than £20k a year. As it were ?

[rayggb]

All you people who keep saying poober are cheaper could you also mention please that you are being subsidised by a multinational company that looses millions every quarter. I know you don't really care but just mention it please.

[realcockney]

All you people who keep saying poober are cheaper could you also mention please that you are being subsidised by a multinational company that looses millions every quarter. I know you don't really care but just mention it please.

 

and that matters because?? at the moment they are loss leading and this type of service will take over like it or not.

[rayggb]

and that matters because?? at the moment they are loss leading and this type of service will take over like it or not.

Your right this type of service do well but not with poober, poober will never make a profit.Meanwhile it just puts cab drivers wages down by flooding the market.

Would you be happy if your job was being flooded by subsidiised Labour?,I don't think so!. The management keeps tripping itself up in court .It's really just another pH company but, a lethal one.

[ECCOnoob]

Your right this type of service do well but not with poober, poober will never make a profit.Meanwhile it just puts cab drivers wages down by flooding the market.

Would you be happy if your job was being flooded by subsidiised Labour?,I don't think so!. The management keeps tripping itself up in court .It's really just another pH company but, a lethal one.

 

Welcome to the real world of industry pal. Something many of us have had to face for decades.

 

Time to wake up and get out there away from the closed shop of the taxi licence mafia.

 

That pesky competition and open consumer choice really is a bitch isnt it.