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Your question amounts to "Why do we have employment law"?
by crc32 8y ago
Your question amounts to "Why do we have employment law"?
- beaconstudios 8y agomore like "should we be creating employment law for microtask work?" which is more of an open question, especially if you consider what such legislation might look like and what effects it may have on the workers and clients alike.
- xg15 8y agoWhat is so fundamentally different about microtask work that it would warrant no employment regulations?
- beaconstudios 8y agowell, a ton of things - it's much closer to freelance work than employment. Not that I'm even advocating for keeping it deregulated specifically - I was making the point that when considering regulation, the (often accidental) effects of said regulation need to be considered. You don't want to fall afoul of the Cobra effect and end up destroying a good thing. Regulation should be introduced to fix specific issues, not just because there aren't any yet. Especially if it's filling an important financial gap for people with low incomes.
- jstanley 8y agoIndeed!