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Re:Uber Hit with $650M Employment Tax Bill in New Jersey by jeffdavis on Thursday November 14, 2019 @06:15PM (#21540581)
Maybe the answer is that they are neither contractors nor employees in the traditionally-understood form.

But the criteria have to make sense in the context of the law. For instance, "unemployment" doesn't make much sense in the context of a driver who works for Uber and Lyft. And "minimum wage" doesn't make sense if the drivers are able to decline or cancel a request.

So can you be more specific about what aspects of employment should apply to an Uber driver?

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Re:Uber Hit with $650M Employment Tax Bill in New Jersey by IanCal on Friday November 15, 2019 @06:37AM (#21544053)
In the UK we have "employee", "worker" and "self employed" basically. They define different rights for the worker, if the company wants more control it moves things towards employee. If they want fewer responsibilities then they have to give up some control (e.g. disciplinary procedures, setting the price, etc)
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