Re:California Labor Bill, Near Passage, Is Blow to Uber and ...
by cletus on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @11:37AM
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Remember flexibility takes many forms being just full-time or not.
Consider NYC taxi drivers. They have 4am to 4pm shifts. This creates many problems (eg getting a cab between 3pm and 4pm due to the shift change such that they had to have a special regime for those who still needed to go to the airport).
What if you wanted or needed to pick up your kids after school at 3pm? That's a problem for a taxi driver. But an Uber or Lyft driver has the flexibility to simply stop accepting fares.
So doing it full-time does not make these situations equivalent I guess is my point.
Consider NYC taxi drivers. They have 4am to 4pm shifts. This creates many problems (eg getting a cab between 3pm and 4pm due to the shift change such that they had to have a special regime for those who still needed to go to the airport).
What if you wanted or needed to pick up your kids after school at 3pm? That's a problem for a taxi driver. But an Uber or Lyft driver has the flexibility to simply stop accepting fares.
So doing it full-time does not make these situations equivalent I guess is my point.