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Uber fails to rebut driver’s legal presumption of employment
The Brussels Labour Court found in June 2025 that an Uber ride hail driver is an employee, overturning the decision of a lower court which had found in favour of Uber in December 2022. Belgium established a new legal presumption of employment in the platform economy in 2023, but this case was first brought forward […]
Court of Brussels rules that Uber driver is self-employed
In December 2022, the Brussels labour court ruled in favour of Uber in a case filed by an Uber driver against the digital labour platform on the classification of the worker as employee. The ruling stated that “Uber had no hierarchical control over the driver, that he was free to organize his own work”.