A McDonald’s manager at a branch in Northern Ireland warned Uber Eats drivers they had a “responsibility” to learn English in their own time and claimed to have dismissed a courier for being “cheeky”, a leaked recording reveals.
Like many couriers for food delivery apps, Uber Eats drivers are formally self-employed, but the recording of a meeting from March last year underlines the pressures they can face from restaurants, as well as from the apps themselves.
