However, regular taxi drivers in the UK and elsewhere are subject to almost all the same “suggestive of employee” points and have been uncontroversially classified as self-employed contractors for decades. Especially if you consider Uber to be the modern equivalent of a combination of the old system of taxi regulator, dispatcher, and payment processor. This despite regular taxi drivers also generally not using their own equipment or having as much control over their working hours.

For this reason the EAT decision smells like politically motivated bias again Uber.