SADIQ KHAN and Transport for London (TfL) are failing to protect private hire drivers from “workers’ right breaches and abusive algorithms,” their union charged today.

The App Drivers and Couriers Union (ADCU) demanded that the capital’s Labour mayor and the local government body regulate transport app giants Uber and Bolt as its members protested in the centre of the capital.

Uber is still not paying drivers for waiting times, despite a ground-breaking Supreme Court ruling in February 2021 that workers must receive payment for the entire time they are working, not just when they are carrying passengers, the union said.