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You list many reasons why Uber drivers might be considered employees. It's worth noting two more absolutely huge ones: they have literally no ability to set the

by CPLX 10y ago

You list many reasons why Uber drivers might be considered employees. It's worth noting two more absolutely huge ones: they have literally no ability to set the price of their work, and no ability to subcontract it to someone else. Those are two attributes that are characteristic of employees.

aetherson 10y ago
They do have the ability to subcontract it to someone else. Uber actually has some in-app facility for this -- you can sign up as like a fleet and have your employees, driving your cars, have some revenue-split with you, the owner. I drove with an Uber that had that going on. I was surprised. This was a few years ago, I suppose it's possible that they've removed it.