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Re:Highest French court reclassifies Uber drivers as employees by reaperducer on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @03:49PM (#22487921)
Since Uber drivers are using their own equipment (cars), that also means they are not employees.

This is not true. There are plenty of professions where employees bring some or all of their own equipment.

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Re:Highest French court reclassifies Uber drivers as employees by WalterBright on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @04:51PM (#22488539)
It is just one of the criteria. There are several.
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Re:Highest French court reclassifies Uber drivers as employees by weego on Thursday March 05, 2020 @04:01AM (#22492047)
And none of the other criteria fit, so it's a moot point
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Re:Highest French court reclassifies Uber drivers as employees by ElFitz on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @04:15PM (#22488214)
True. I'm a developer, and I only once got a company provided computer. And one (1) testing device (mobile dev).
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Re:Highest French court reclassifies Uber drivers as employees by 8note on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @08:33PM (#22490104)
do you bring your own servers too?
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Re:Highest French court reclassifies Uber drivers as employees by ElFitz on Thursday March 05, 2020 @02:47AM (#22491710)
No, lucky me. Either I'm doing mobile and don't care wether it's an actual server behind those APIs or a hamster going crazy in it's wheel. Or I'm doing backend, in which case I only do serverless.

One colleague of mine did end up using his own server to run daily data processing and numbers crunching jobs for work though. It also served the internal analytics web UI. Apparently went on for years.

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