Uber Drivers Are Contractors, Not Employees, Labor Board Says

Re:Uber Drivers Are Contractors, Not Employees, Labor Board ... by blub on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @03:58PM (#19923117)

Everybody knows how offer and demand works if left unchecked. That's why it's almost never left unchecked... I mean this is what the whole discussion about gigging is: why should we allow such crappy working conditions?

"simply because the actual value of their work may be lower than the liveable wage."

That is not a job then and the entity assigning such tasks is not a company. A company has a responsibility to offer its workers certain benefits in return for having access to the legal and social frames that are allowing it to operate.

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Re:Uber Drivers Are Contractors, Not Employees, Labor Board ... by ehnto on Thursday May 16, 2019 @03:03AM (#19926794)

I am in agreeance that if they can't sustain their business without VC or underpaid workers then it isn't a viable business model and the market should let them go bankrupt. I kind of hope they do so that a more reasonable business can fill the void.

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