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This should be 100% not shocking to anyone (including Uber, i expect). Given their recent executive hires, i'm sure they saw this coming, and already have an a

This should be 100% not shocking to anyone (including Uber, i expect). Given their recent executive hires, i'm sure they saw this coming, and already have an appeal strategy. From a legal standpoint, riding the edge rarely works. Look at what happened to Aereo.

icebraining 11y ago
Taxi companies have been riding it for decades. Currently the National Taxi Workers’ Alliance does not have any collective bargaining rights as they represent a non-traditional workforce. Taxi cab drivers are not covered under the Fair Labor Standards Act which protects workers’ safety and grants overtime pay.
- DannyBee 11y ago
  This is not riding the edge at all. This is explicit in the FLSA, see 29 U.S.C. §213(b)(17), which exempts (from overtime)“any driver employed by an employer engaged in the business of operating taxicabs.”
bsder 11y ago
Aereo is a really bad example to cite since it looks very much like they were simply lying through their teeth rather than riding the tech edge.
- DannyBee 11y ago
  ???? AFAIK, they were playing the edge of the law, and lost.
  - bsder 11y ago
    They claimed that they were receiving the public signals on their tiny little antennas which were significantly under the quarter wavelength that you need to receive them. While maybe possible, the science and engineering were continuously obfuscated (for no really good reason--since this kind of advance would be very patentable and profitable), and they never actually produced a convincing demonstration that they were doing what they actually claimed. If they were actually doing this, they were skirting the edge of the law. In reality, they seemed to be receiving the signals on a single big antenna elsewhere, and then copying from that signal. This is quite clearly illegal in current law, and is what they actually got slapped for.

icebraining 11y ago

Taxi companies have been riding it for decades. Currently the National Taxi Workers’ Alliance does not have any collective bargaining rights as they represent a non-traditional workforce. Taxi cab drivers are not covered under the Fair Labor Standards Act which protects workers’ safety and grants overtime pay.

DannyBee 11y ago
This is not riding the edge at all. This is explicit in the FLSA, see 29 U.S.C. §213(b)(17), which exempts (from overtime)“any driver employed by an employer engaged in the business of operating taxicabs.”

bsder 11y ago

Aereo is a really bad example to cite since it looks very much like they were simply lying through their teeth rather than riding the tech edge.

DannyBee 11y ago
???? AFAIK, they were playing the edge of the law, and lost.
- bsder 11y ago
  They claimed that they were receiving the public signals on their tiny little antennas which were significantly under the quarter wavelength that you need to receive them. While maybe possible, the science and engineering were continuously obfuscated (for no really good reason--since this kind of advance would be very patentable and profitable), and they never actually produced a convincing demonstration that they were doing what they actually claimed. If they were actually doing this, they were skirting the edge of the law. In reality, they seemed to be receiving the signals on a single big antenna elsewhere, and then copying from that signal. This is quite clearly illegal in current law, and is what they actually got slapped for.