Re:Highest French court reclassifies Uber drivers as employees
by pishpash on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @07:41PM
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I think that's where the problem lies. A functioning market imposes certain restrictions on participants. A good regulator also adds requirements to ensure fairness, access, etc. One requirement (for instance) could be that you need to provide certain kinds of information about the work. Instead of doing this, what's the point of beating around the bush and inventing that one of the marks of employment is a "sometimes-lousy arrangement"? When did that become the defining characteristic of employment, as opposed to simply an unfavorable contract?
Re:Highest French court reclassifies Uber drivers as employees
by sk5t on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @08:23PM
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> what's the point of beating around the bush and inventing that one of the marks of employment is a "sometimes-lousy arrangement"?
I don't think anyone seeks to apply such a test; the lousiness of the arrangement is incidental. I had attempted to argue that the mere fact that workers knowingly take a questionable or even bad deal does not mean they are contractors. The legal status of employee vs. contractor does not hinge on that.
That some people are willing to participate in this zany scheme doesn't mean the court necessarily ought to view them as non-employees.
Were there a bidding process with a reasonable and sufficient amount of transparency to the worker--what and where exactly is the job, what does it pay?--then the scales could tilt towards contractor-dom.