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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Eve Livingston

Food delivery drivers fired after ‘cut-price’ GPS app sent them on ‘impossible’ routes

Courier on pushbike seen from behind
Riders across the UK are represented by the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain. Photograph: Eric Gaillard/Reuters

Drivers who deliver food and drink for Just Eat have been fired after being misdirected by a cut-price GPS system, according to the union representing them.

The couriers, who work for Stuart, a company that supplies drivers to some of the biggest restaurant and retail names in Britain, told the Observer they were sacked by pro-forma email after being mislocated by the GPS system or deviating from impossible or dangerous routes.

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