How the uber ruling affects tutors

How the uber ruling affects tutors

As we have talked about in a previous blog post. The Tutor industry in the UK was in court arguing about their difference in employee contractor relationship.

Arguing that ‘freelance tutors’ are the norm. While their self employed status is reflected in the way they work. This argument was lost last year. It is an inevitable result of Gov. push to move everyone onto an employed status. Essentially limited self employed.

The Tutor industry was mature. With a way of working of self employed status the norm. Including supplied by software (www.tutorcruncher) that served this hourly per hour service.

However, the industry is now joined by Uber in facing a full employment requirement from it’s tutors or in Uber’s case, drivers. On Friday, Uber lost it’s own high court judgement. Going along tide the tutor judgement last year. Now, traditionally employed tutors along with employed drivers is the norm.

The long term affect of this is the supply to the industry will split. Split into individuals who take full control of their own working with a range of suppliers who are direct. I.e. Cut out the agent. Along with a full time model on the other end. Cutting out the agency model.

The Exam House very much aims to take the Full time tutor model.