It all comes down to whether or not you think the owners of property rented out via AirBnB are, in fact, "employees". How about eBay or Etsy... are people who

It all comes down to whether or not you think the owners of property rented out via AirBnB are, in fact, "employees". How about eBay or Etsy... are people who sell things via those platforms "employees" of the platform? If so, then you have an odd definition of "employee". If not, then where do you draw the distinction?