Nov 01
Jose Leonardo repeatedly knifed 52 year-old Maria Mbombo in the body and arms, jurors heard AN UBER driver murdered his wife after searching on Google for ‘the most painful place to stab someone’, a court heard today. Jose Leonardo repeatedly knifed 52 year-old Maria Mbombo in the body and arms and left her to bleed to …
Nov 01
Landmark employment tribunal ruling states firm must also pay drivers national living wage and holiday pay with huge implications for gig economy Uber drivers are not self-employed and should be paid the “national living wage”, a UK employment court has ruled in a landmark case which could affect tens of thousands of workers in the …
Nov 01
For some reason, people keep thinking they can outsmart Mother Nature, and Mother Nature always wins. Take this uber driver, who either thought the tide would not rise for him or that his car would turn into a raft, Transformers-style. Unfortunately, it didn’t end well – as this drone footage shows. The driver was caught …
Nov 01
Taxis: Rossendale Department for Transport written question – answered on 31st October 2016. Paul Blomfield Shadow Minister (Exiting the European Union) To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 12 October 2016 to Question 46806 on taxis: licensing, what assessment he has made of the reasons for the increase in …
Oct 28
Manveer Singh Khakh pleaded guilty at Southern Derbyshire Magistrates’ Court today to 23 offences relating driving a taxi without the correct licence. The court heard Khakh had been given private hire work by an operator in Derby on the basis that he was licensed as a hackney carriage driver with Gedling Borough Council. Derby City …
Oct 28
A tribunal is going to decide whether Uber drivers are entitled to receive the minimum wage as well as sickness and holiday pay. An employment tribunal in London will today make a landmark ruling that could set a precedent for the UK’s so-called gig economy. Two Uber drivers have brought a case against the car …
Oct 28
THE high cost of courses to improve the level of service from taxi drivers in Christchurch has led to councillors rejecting the idea. At a meeting of the licensing committee on Monday, members discussed plans to ask drivers to complete BTEC and NVQ qualifications in a bid to raise the quality of service for passengers. …
Oct 27
A coroner has today ruled that the death of a motorcyclist killed in a head-on crash with a taxi was an ‘unlawful killing’. Mark Buckley from Mansfield died after the crash in March 2014, having suffered “unsurvivable” injuries. Nottinghamshire Coroner’s Court was told the taxi driver, Kevin Wiesztort, was unfit to be on the road …
Oct 26
The owner of a Minicab company that failed to act upon a complaint against a dangerous driver who killed a motorcyclist is to have his licence reviewed, an inquest has heard. Hayley Barsby, deputy chief executive of Mansfield District Council, told coroner Mairin Casey that the authority will review Dennis Lamb’s operator’s licence within 28 …
Oct 26
Barred taxi driver who ‘gave false address’ loses appeal to get licence back A CABBIE who gave a false address to try to get a licence has been told the council was right to block his application. Magistrates have upheld Taunton Deane Borough Council’s decision to revoke Abdo Al Arab’s taxi and private hire vehicle …
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