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That's a good answer. Is this the kind of reasoning playing out in the courts? As a complete aside, I think it's somewhat bogus for Uber to describe themselves
by netcan 10y ago
That's a good answer. Is this the kind of reasoning playing out in the courts?
As a complete aside, I think it's somewhat bogus for Uber to describe themselves a market. They use market-like mechanisms, but ultimately they set price. The price isn't something consumers and suppliers have input on. Drivers and consumers can decide to take or leave it. I think it's stretching the definition to call it a market. They just gave drivers the same sort of take it or leave it option as most businesses give consumers.
The legal distinction between contractors and employees is legal semantics.
- rayiner 10y ago> Is this the kind of reasoning playing out in the courts? Yes. A big part of the legal distinction between contractors and employees is the degree of control over the manner of performing the work.
- dnautics 10y ago> They use market-like mechanisms, but ultimately they set price. The law aside, that should be irrelevant. If amazon sets the price of their digital streaming offerings (let's say they want to uniformly set all movies to be $10/view for the first weeks then $5/view after opening) would the movie studios be subsidiaries" of amazon, and would the gaffer that worked on making that movie be an "employee" of amazon? The contractor still has the option to accept (or not) the price point that is offered.