{"id":988127,"date":"2026-01-28T08:12:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T02:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=988127"},"modified":"2026-01-28T08:17:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T02:47:22","slug":"dutch-court-rules-uber-drivers-can-be-treated-as-self-employed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/28\/dutch-court-rules-uber-drivers-can-be-treated-as-self-employed\/","title":{"rendered":"Dutch court rules Uber drivers can be treated as self-employed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Dutch court on \u200dTuesday overturned a 2021 ruling that had classified all Uber drivers as employees, stating \u2060that individual drivers can be treated as independent entrepreneurs. <\/p>\n<p>The Amsterdam court said six drivers who had joined the rideshare company in its appeal are \u200cself-employed rather \u200cthan employees, given the investments they made in their vehicle, their freedom to choose working \u200chours and their ability to accept or reject rides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Dutch court on \u200dTuesday overturned a 2021 ruling that had classified all Uber drivers as employees, stating \u2060that individual drivers can be treated as independent entrepreneurs. The Amsterdam court said six drivers who had joined the rideshare company in its appeal are \u200cself-employed rather \u200cthan employees, given the investments they made in their vehicle, their freedom to choose working \u200chours and their ability to accept or reject rides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=988127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}