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An individual taxi driver owning a cab, a license if necessary, paying for his insurance and getting the money from his passengers is an individual contractor,
by Slartie 6y ago
An individual taxi driver owning a cab, a license if necessary, paying for his insurance and getting the money from his passengers is an individual contractor, yes.
It's just that he contracts with the individual riders, not any higher-up monopolistic business entity that sets arbitrary business-driven rules that all taxi drivers have to follow.
- valuearb 6y agoVery few drivers own their cars (or more importantly their monopoly medallion). Those are owned by investors like the presidents former lawyer, Michael Cohen. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2018/08/23/taxi-commission-warns-michael-cohen-they-may-revoke-his-medallions.html https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2018/08/23/tax...
- Slartie 6y agoIsn't that only the case in certain metropolitan areas? It is a huge problem indeed, but the problem there is the medallion system having degraded to become a shady get-rich-quick investment scheme. This is unrelated to the way in which the drivers are operating. They just lease their car and medallion from someone, paying that guy a fixed rate per day for that lease, but that does make them neither a contractor nor an employee of the guy who owns car and medallion. If they also were to lease the clothes they wear while working from a tailor instead of buying them, that wouldn't make the drivers in any way into contractors or employees of that tailor.
- remote_phone 6y agoAbsolutely false. Most taxi drivers don’t own the medallion, and in fact when they start their shift they owe the taxi cab company $80-100, so they need to work for a few hours just to get to break even. Your mental gymnastics to try to justify why taxi drivers aren’t employees but Uber drivers are is showing.
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