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Re:Highest French court reclassifies Uber drivers as employees by duxut_staglatz on Thursday March 05, 2020 @05:50AM (#22492502)
What's the new category? Currently in France there is:

- employment where you trade liberty (i.e. subordination) against protection (can't be fired at will, minimum wage, guaranteed income set in the contract...) from a company

- being an independent worker where you keep your liberty and do not get protection

If there is a third category like what Uber is currently doing, you trade your liberty (subordination) against no protection. It is not a new category, it is lowering the protection of employment. Which may or may not be a good thing, that's not my point, but I fail to see where's the new category of work.

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Re:Highest French court reclassifies Uber drivers as employees by freepor on Thursday March 05, 2020 @12:09PM (#22495527)
The new category is that Uber is as controlling as an employer in some ways (manner of work) but not in others (time and place of work). There should be a legal framework to handle these hybrid scenarios.
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