Gig economy: worker loses Pimlico Plumbers holiday pay claim

Man who won earlier workers’ rights case against firm is not entitled to £74,000, court rulesA heating engineer who won a claim against Pimlico Plumbers at the supreme court, establishing he was a worker and not self-employed, has lost his bid to claim £74,000 in holiday pay as a result.An employment tribunal in Croydon ruled on Wednesday that Gary Smith, from Kent, who worked at the firm for six years until 2011, had not filed his holiday pay claim quickly enough. Continue rea