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Interestingly, the text messages Uber and Lyft sent are factually accurate in that being made an employee will limit the ability of drivers to choose their own
by Paraesthetic 7y ago
Interestingly, the text messages Uber and Lyft sent are factually accurate in that being made an employee will limit the ability of drivers to choose their own working hours. What they dont tell them is that they will also have better entitlements and cost the company more.
- detaro 7y agoSince when are companies forbidden from letting workers choose their working hours?
- slfnflctd 7y agoWhen it will destroy their business if they do so.
- SilasX 7y agoNot true. The annoying/hard part about this debate is that the law is making a distinction, and everyday speech makes a distinction, and we use the same words in both cases, even though they have different meanings and implications. It doesn't help that the legal distinction is hard to reason about since its goal is kind of nebulous. As best I can tell, it's balancing between "ensuring that businesses pay social insurance[1] obligations for anyone who they've made economically dependent on them" and "not making it burdensome to hire sporadic workers that 'feel' like legit independent contractors". So yes, Uber can absolutely class drivers as employees (EmploymentLaw::Employee) and then say "oh just work whenever" (LaySpeech::Contractor). [1] an umbrella term covering a lot of things; here, unemployment insurance and worker's compensation insurance. Edit: Rewrote when I realized you were saying the opposite and I was disagreeing.