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Uber drivers themselves never seem to complain about this. It's almost like those labor protections come with a bunch of other baggage that makes the tradeoff n
by cwalv 2y ago
Uber drivers themselves never seem to complain about this. It's almost like those labor protections come with a bunch of other baggage that makes the tradeoff not worth it to them. Of course, it's easy to explain away any perceived 'tradeoffs' with them just being too stupid to know better, but I don't think that's accurate.
- sabbaticaldev 2y ago> Uber drivers themselves never seem to complain about this why would they? uber takes more money from the customers than taxis got in the past, pay less to the drivers and less taxes. Everybody pays for uber benefit
- thfuran 2y agoMost people don't like being underpaid.
- Dylan16807 2y agoObviously nobody wants to be underpaid, but not everyone wants to be employee-level on the clock for uber the entire time they're logged in and taking offers.
- peterashford 2y agoThere's a lot of Uber drivers in NZ who did complain about this. It's the reason for the court case that the article is about
- lolinder 2y agoConcretely, "a lot" in this court case is "4". Do we have a strong reason to believe that the number of disgruntled drivers is significantly higher in NZ than in other countries? This wouldn't be the first time a few disgruntled people got a government to "fix" a system that the vast majority felt was working fine for them.