Re:Highest French court reclassifies Uber drivers as employees
by throwanem on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @03:03PM
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Are you a contractor, or are you an employee of a contracting firm? I've been both, and it is a meaningful distinction.
Re:Highest French court reclassifies Uber drivers as employees
by AmericanChopper on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @03:12PM
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I’ve been both a contractor directly for companies, and contracted through contracting companies (being an employee for a contracting company is usually called being a consultant, which I’ve also been). In either case I would not assume that I could arbitrarily sub-contract my work out to others.
Re:Highest French court reclassifies Uber drivers as employees
by floatingatoll on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @10:26PM
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The ability to subcontract is one of many tests for whether you are an independent contractor or not.
Re:Highest French court reclassifies Uber drivers as employees
by AmericanChopper on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @11:08PM
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In which jurisdiction? How many tests are there? How many do you have to pass?
It’s a pretty ridiculous assertion to claim that you must be able to sub-contract to be a contractor, and I’d be surprised if there was even one jurisdiction in the world where that was true. It would mean you could never screen contractors.
This doesn’t stand up to scrutiny. I often work as a contractor. If I decided one morning to send a friend into a clients office to fulfil my duties, I would not even expect them to be able to gain entry to the building.