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I totally agree with the comments saying that Uber and others are trying to get employee-level control over people with contractor-level benefits. The guys who
by habosa 12y ago
I totally agree with the comments saying that Uber and others are trying to get employee-level control over people with contractor-level benefits. The guys who drive Uber for 20,30, even 50 hours a week are definitely employees and should be treated as such.
However I'd like to throw in my own personal anecdote. I am a full time software engineer but I am signed up as a Postmates bike deliveryperson on the side. I do ~3 hours of work on Saturdays and Sundays because it's basically paid exercise and I like to explore. I am clearly NOT an employee of Postmates. If new laws are passed, would people like me just be told to go away? I think one of the coolest things about the gig economy is that there are a lot of people like me just taking on flexible employment because it's such an easy way to use idle cycles (no pun intended).
- TazeTSchnitzel 12y agoIsn't that just part-time employment, then?
- jtbigwoo 12y agoI delivered papers once a week as a kid. I got paid 3 cents per copy by the company. I worked approximately 2 hours per week. I was officially an employee. It didn't break the company to classify me as an employee. It wouldn't break Postmates to have you classified as an employee either.
- ovulator 12y agoI'm not sure how long ago you delivered papers, but I delivered papers in the 90's as a kid and was an independent contractor. I worked for a paper in the 2000's, not as a deliverer, but their deliverer's were all independent contractors. These were two different papers at two different parts of the country, I'm sure not all papers handle it this way but I wouldn't be surprised if this was the case for most.