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Re:Highest French court reclassifies Uber drivers as employees by manmal on Thursday March 05, 2020 @01:08AM (#22491333)
In Austria, another checkbox „pseudo self employment“ has to tick in order to get recognized as such, is the fact that the freelancer only has one client. So, I think, here it would be decided on a case by case basis. Which to me still seems overzealous - as a freelancer I always have to worry to take on 2-3 clients per year to not get reinterpreted as an employee after the fact.

Technically, this problem doesn’t apply to Uber in Austria because only rental car companies are allowed to provide this kind of service. The problem here rather lies with the cheap labor those rental car companies are employing (reportedly, those engagements sometimes border on modern slavery).

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Re:Highest French court reclassifies Uber drivers as employees by koreth1 on Thursday March 05, 2020 @01:20AM (#22491371)
> as a freelancer I always have to worry to take on 2-3 clients per year to not get reinterpreted as an employee after the fact.

I had a similar situation in the US when I was a contractor many years ago; during periods when one client had me working on a large project I wanted to focus on, I had to take on a couple of token tiny projects periodically to keep my clients from getting into trouble with employment agencies.

I agree with the end goals of those rules but as a generously-paid technology consultant, I was in no danger of exploitation and it was just added hassle benefitting nobody.

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