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Legal fight: Thebigword performers claim that the demands imposed on them mean they should be considered workers
Government translators are launching a lawsuit against their employer over basic workers’ rights, in another challenge to the “gig economy.”
Interpreters from contractor Thebigword provide services to the MoD, UK Border Force and HMRC, as well as local authorities.
Thebigword also provided interpreters who worked for British forces in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Translators are considered self-employed, but they say that because of the demands placed on them, they should be considered workers.
This would ensure they receive minimum wage and holiday pay.
This distinction has been at the center of a series of lawsuits from those working for companies such as takeaway app Deliveroo in the so-called “gig economy”.
But this has not always been successful, as last year the Supreme Court ruled that Deliveroo riders are self-employed and do not have the right to collective bargaining.
Gabriel Morrison, a lawyer at Leigh Day, said the translators and interpreters Thebigword works with “should be fairly compensated.”
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