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What if I work a 60 or 80 hour work week? Do I accumulate sick days faster? What about states that mandate 1.5x pay for every hour over 40 in a week or every ho

What if I work a 60 or 80 hour work week? Do I accumulate sick days faster? What about states that mandate 1.5x pay for every hour over 40 in a week or every hour over 8 in a day? Can I force minimum wage waiting around at 5am in areas with insufficient passengers? There are no companies that "have to do it already" where employees also have complete and total control over the number of hours they work and in what location they work.

tom_mellior 9y ago
> Can I force minimum wage waiting around at 5am in areas with insufficient passengers? In the EU, legally, yes, as long as Uber's stance is that if you are logged into the app, you are available for work and must accept fares. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_Time_Directive_2003 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_Time_Directive_2003: "The SIMAP judgment defined all time when the worker was required to be present on site as actual working hours, for the purposes of work and rest calculations. The Jaeger judgment confirmed that this was the case even if workers could sleep when their services were not required." Will Uber actually pay you minimum wage if you try this? No, they will fire you. Or they will implement a special mode in their app saying "thank you for trying to log in, but your services are currently not needed, so we won't let you". Just because you aren't aware of the many many very detailed rules in this area, that doesn't mean that there are no rules.
lhopki01 9y ago
If you read my original comment you'd see that the contract would specify whether you accumulate sick days faster or there is a cut off at a 40 hour week. The only they they need is to ensure that employees accumulate sick days at the rate mandated by law. Again if the law mandates that then they have to pay that. They are free to implement something in their app to stop you working more than 40 hours a week if they want to. Yes there are companies where you can choose your shift. There are companies where you choose where you work. I'm sure there are companies that allow both already. Also just because you do something new doesn't mean you suddenly don't have to follow the law. I can't say I'm the only company that allows employees to work from wherever they want as long as they wear a propeller hats therefore I don't have to provide sick pay.

tom_mellior 9y ago

> Can I force minimum wage waiting around at 5am in areas with insufficient passengers? In the EU, legally, yes, as long as Uber's stance is that if you are logged into the app, you are available for work and must accept fares. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_Time_Directive_2003 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_Time_Directive_2003: "The SIMAP judgment defined all time when the worker was required to be present on site as actual working hours, for the purposes of work and rest calculations. The Jaeger judgment confirmed that this was the case even if workers could sleep when their services were not required." Will Uber actually pay you minimum wage if you try this? No, they will fire you. Or they will implement a special mode in their app saying "thank you for trying to log in, but your services are currently not needed, so we won't let you". Just because you aren't aware of the many many very detailed rules in this area, that doesn't mean that there are no rules.

lhopki01 9y ago

If you read my original comment you'd see that the contract would specify whether you accumulate sick days faster or there is a cut off at a 40 hour week. The only they they need is to ensure that employees accumulate sick days at the rate mandated by law. Again if the law mandates that then they have to pay that. They are free to implement something in their app to stop you working more than 40 hours a week if they want to. Yes there are companies where you can choose your shift. There are companies where you choose where you work. I'm sure there are companies that allow both already. Also just because you do something new doesn't mean you suddenly don't have to follow the law. I can't say I'm the only company that allows employees to work from wherever they want as long as they wear a propeller hats therefore I don't have to provide sick pay.