Re:DPD courier who was fined for day off to see doctor dies ...
by Certhas on Monday February 05, 2018 @05:19AM
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Per the article, the individual couriers are the contractors. Hence Gig economy. I believe this would also be illegal in Germany at least.
Really, this is a solved problem. It's called employment and has a bunch of rules and regulations around it to mitigate the extreme power imbalance between the two parties involved (which is vastly lessened in the case of contracting programmers/in demand experts). Technology has given companies the ability to skirt these laws, the laws need to catch up. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/nov/10/uber-lose...
Really, this is a solved problem. It's called employment and has a bunch of rules and regulations around it to mitigate the extreme power imbalance between the two parties involved (which is vastly lessened in the case of contracting programmers/in demand experts). Technology has given companies the ability to skirt these laws, the laws need to catch up. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/nov/10/uber-lose...