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I honestly never paid any attention to the law, but I really don't understand how it would be feasible to treat Uber drivers as W4 employees in the first place.

I honestly never paid any attention to the law, but I really don't understand how it would be feasible to treat Uber drivers as W4 employees in the first place. What other sort of W4 job lets you chose both how many and which hours you want to work, and let you skip any assignments you don't want to complete? That honestly is so totally backwards to even how part time jobs work that I'm not convinced it would be viable.

ahelwer 6y ago
Assuming you mean W-2 job. This arrangement is actually quite common for software engineering contractors. There are a number of "proxy" contracting companies (ex. iWorkGlobal) of which the independent contractor is a W-2 employee, but the contractor really works on an hourly contract for a third-party company that is contracting with the proxy company. It has all the trappings of independent contracting where you can choose your own hours, renegotiate/modify the contract, whatever. It's common when contracting with tech giants.