Friday’s appeal decision sends a clear message: employment rights abuses in the gig economy will only stop if the existing law is respected and properly enforced.. There has been much debate about how to regulate such jobs in order to protect the people doing them... [W]hat the many recent tribunal decisions have shown is that the couriers and private hire drivers who provide the labour for Britain’s on-demand economy are already entitled to employment rights under UK law; their rights have simply not been enforced... [T]he law recognises two types of self-employed people. The first type are micro-entrepreneurs or professionals contracting with clients or customers. The second type – known as (Limb b) workers – carry out their work as part of someone else’s business rather than their own, and as such are entitled to a number of employment rights such as holidays, minimum wage and pensions contributions...