Following a years-long dispute with town’s transit regulator, Uber has earned a 30-month license to proceed working in London, Transport for London (TfL) stated on Saturday. “Uber has been granted a London private hire vehicle operator’s license for a period of two and a half years,” a TfL spokesperson advised .

Uber’s dispute with TfL dates again to when the company stated the corporate wasn’t “fit and proper” to function within the metropolis and went on to revoke its taxi license. Among different points, TfL stated Uber had did not correctly conduct driver background checks and report severe legal offenses. Uber that call. And whereas a court docket went on to grant it to wash up its act, TfL finally revoked the corporate’s license once more in , noting on the time it had proven a “pattern of failures” prior to now. Subsequently, Uber one other court docket choice in 2020 that gave it a brand new 18-month license that got here with situations designed to observe its adherence to native rules.

On Twitter, Uber said it was “delighted” by TfL’s choice, noting the company “rightly holds our industry to the highest regulatory and safety standards,” and that it was “pleased to have met their high bar.” But not everyone seems to be completely satisfied in regards to the choice.

“This is yet another tragically missed opportunity for [London Mayor] Sadiq Khan to make worker rights a condition of license for Uber to finally bring an end to the abuse of 100,000 gig workers licensed by Transport for London,” the App Drivers and Couriers Union following the announcement. The group accused the corporate of failing to adjust to a UK Supreme Court ruling from legislation 12 months that the corporate ought to deal with its drivers as .