The government ruled that in the way Uber operates, in its one size fits all agreement with drivers, its drivers fit the definition of employee. If a driver wan

The government ruled that in the way Uber operates, in its one size fits all agreement with drivers, its drivers fit the definition of employee. If a driver wants to be a contractor with Uber, they'd have to have a different agreement with Uber and Uber would have to create special rules for that contractor that meet the standards for contractor under local law. I don't think Uber is interested in managing individual (or even multiple boilerplate) contracts, and that's not even to say whether or not it would be beneficial economically for them.