Deliveroo won the right not to give its couriers the minimum wage or holiday pay on Tuesday... In a key legal ruling the Central Arbitration Committee [...] said the food delivery firm’s riders were self-employed contractors as they had the right to allocate a substitute to do the work for them... The union can take the decision to judicial review, but it is still considering its position... [T]he managing director for Deliveroo in the UK and Ireland, said: “This is a victory for all riders who have continuously told us that flexibility is what they value most about working with Deliveroo.” He said the company wanted employment law to be changed so Deliveroo could offer injury pay and sick pay while maintaining flexibility... At the CAC tribunal in May, it emerged that Deliveroo had recently made a series of changes to its contracts, including allowing riders to bring in someone to cover their work. Being unable to send someone else to do your work is a key definition of a worker, an employment classification that carries the right to the national minimum wage, union recognition and holiday pay.