This is great news, hopefully we get some similar protections in the United States. Labor laws exist for a reason. I think the key difference is ownership- if

This is great news, hopefully we get some similar protections in the United States. Labor laws exist for a reason. I think the key difference is ownership- if you own everything you need to do a job- the “means of production”- maybe you’re an independent contractor. But if you don’t own the network and you are reliant on some organization for the work then I think that makes you an employee. I’ll admit that there is some grey area in between. But basically there is an unbalanced power relationship between an employer and employee that makes labor laws necessary. The whole business model of Uber and other gig economy businesses is to save money on labor costs by hacking labor laws.