Mick Clifford: Is last week's Supreme Court decision the beginning of the end for bogus self-employment?

The court's ruling that delivery drivers for Domino’s Pizza should be treated as employees and not contractors could have huge implications for workers in the so-called gig economy

Effectively, the Supreme Court determined that the status of the Domino’s drivers as self-employed was bogus, at least for tax purposes. 

Last week, it was business as usual in the Four Courts. Case were heard, applications made and rulings delivered. Outside, on Inn’s Quay, hugging the Liffey, delivery drivers dodged between the traffic and sped along the newly created cycle lanes. 

These delivery drivers have one thing in common with the practitioners inside the hallowed halls of justice.