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Re:Highest French court reclassifies Uber drivers as employees by reaperducer on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @03:48PM (#22487903)
If Uber has to class them as employees, it should also be able to deny them from working on other platforms.

Why? In America, there are tens of millions of people who work more than one job. They're still employees; just employees of more than one company.

Fred's Plastic Fork Factory can't tell me I can't moonlight at Alice's Diesel Cafe and Firing Range.

Re:Highest French court reclassifies Uber drivers as employees by intopieces on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @05:55PM (#22489049)
Anti-Moonlighting clauses are perfectly legal, though not without controversy:

https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/legal-and-compliance/...

Re:Highest French court reclassifies Uber drivers as employees by sigstoat on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @03:59PM (#22488025)
> In America, there are tens of millions of people who work more than one job.

not simultaneously, or even interleaved in 30 minute increments.

Re:Highest French court reclassifies Uber drivers as employees by bluntfang on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @04:24PM (#22488301)
As someone who has the ability to work 2 tech jobs if I wanted to, I could context switch every minute if I wanted to due to the technology allowing me to do so. Why should other people be unable to do this if the tech is there to support it?
Re:Highest French court reclassifies Uber drivers as employees by thenewnewguy on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @07:03PM (#22489576)
Yes, but this is due to the fact that most jobs require your physical presence, Uber does not.
Re:Highest French court reclassifies Uber drivers as employees by jppope on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @11:05PM (#22490866)
which is actually an argument that they are not employees.
Re:Highest French court reclassifies Uber drivers as employees by nosianu on Thursday March 05, 2020 @03:20AM (#22491858)
No it is not and never was. Sales people - going back a very long time and include fully traveling ones - are not employees? How about traveling service technicians, not infrequently located all over the country, far from any company office? Home office - not uncommonly full time even, e.g. the company I work for does not even have an office but people employed all over this and other countries - are not employees? Please don't arbitrarily redefine "employment" to make your point.
Re:Highest French court reclassifies Uber drivers as employees by easytiger on Thursday March 05, 2020 @04:57AM (#22492303)
You are the one who has been entirely disingenuous... the previous post made a very good point which you have not contradicted.
Re:Highest French court reclassifies Uber drivers as employees by lawtalkinghuman on Thursday March 05, 2020 @08:31AM (#22493338)
TIL: on-call doctors are not employees.
Re:Highest French court reclassifies Uber drivers as employees by mattw815 on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @03:52PM (#22487951)
Fred's Plastic Fork Factory can tell you that you can't moonlight and can fire you if you do.
Re:Highest French court reclassifies Uber drivers as employees by incadenza on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @03:54PM (#22487972)
Such a clause is pretty common in employment contracts.
Re:Highest French court reclassifies Uber drivers as employees by davengh on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @06:00PM (#22489095)
I've seen these precluding secondary employment with competitive entities, but it seems there'd be little competition between Fred's and Alice's businesses (based on name alone).
Re:Highest French court reclassifies Uber drivers as employees by manquer on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @07:37PM (#22489798)
there is competition between uber and lyft though, you can driver for both at the same time