Britain’s Supreme Court on Friday unanimously ruled that Uber drivers are workers rather than self-employed, in a landmark ruling that may have implications for the rest of the gig economy. Uber drivers are currently treated as self-employed, meaning that by law they are only afforded minimal protections, a status the Silicon Valley-based company sought to maintain through continued court action. A London employment tribunal ruled in 2016 in favour of two former Uber drivers, Yaseen Aslam and James Farrar, who argued that they should be entitled to workers’ rights such as paid holidays and rest breaks. After its appeals were rejected by the Employment Appeal Tribunal and later the High Court, Uber took the case to the UK Supreme Court, the nation’s highest court. The court said on Friday that the six judges who heard the case “unanimously dismiss[ed] Uber’s appeal.” The drivers were “rightly found to be ‘workers’” because, …