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Re:U.S. judge says Uber drivers are not company's employees by walshemj on Friday April 13, 2018 @05:33AM (#16828334)
Which is the basis of all salaried jobs ie you don't have fixed hours of work
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Re:U.S. judge says Uber drivers are not company's employees by toddBarkus on Friday April 13, 2018 @09:47AM (#16829917)
A salaried structure is not the same thing as unset hours. This is a pretty standard misconception of people new to the workforce.
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Re:U.S. judge says Uber drivers are not company's employees by walshemj on Friday April 13, 2018 @12:41PM (#16831620)
It is in the UK and my last contract it explicity said "no fixed hours of work".

You can't be unprofessional about it and take the piss an not get sacked for cause but you cant micro mange and try and fire some one for being 5 mins late.

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Re:U.S. judge says Uber drivers are not company's employees by jiveturkey on Friday April 13, 2018 @07:50AM (#16829054)
my guess is most (by far) salaried jobs are not flex time. certainly flex hours is not the basis of all salaried jobs.

to pick a job at random: teachers are salaried. they certainly have fixed working hours.

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Re:U.S. judge says Uber drivers are not company's employees by walshemj on Friday April 13, 2018 @01:08PM (#16831865)
That's picking a rather specialised nich career which doesn't prove the point.
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