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Ideally, you want the former and the latter to be equivalent.

• VBprogrammer 6y ago
  An interesting take on this is that essentially we are seeing the results of strong unionisation in the taxi industry leading to cross polenation of protections in related industries (or at least investor fear that it may happen).
• londons_explore 6y ago
  The former and the latter can be made equivalent if unethical things can be made retrospectively illegal. It's bad for business to do so, but it's happening more and more frequently that things like not giving your workers sufficient breaks/pension contributions/healthcare/etc can after-the-fact be corrected leaving a big liability for that kind of behaviour. Obviously any country that gets a reputation for changing laws after-the-fact will soon lose all outside investment... So it isn't a clear win.
• notahacker 6y ago
  In this case, to an extent, they are. Deliveroo won one court case arguing its delivery drivers were contractors rather than employees being paid less than minimum wage, but after Uber lost in a higher court, the future of its business model depends on whether the ability to reject orders is perceived as sufficient freedom to negotiate independent contractor rates.