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Re:Highest French court reclassifies Uber drivers as employees by banannaise on Thursday March 05, 2020 @01:31PM (#22496469)
They're not free to choose the method of fulfillment at all. They can't stop at 7-11 on the way, nor can they complete the route with a rickshaw, nor can they subcontract it. They can't pick up additional passengers except by Uber's explicit permission.

That freedom reduces to "they're free to optimize the route to get there quickly" which is a freedom you have at just about any job. I can decide how to code most efficiently, but does that really make me more contractor-like?

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Re:Highest French court reclassifies Uber drivers as employees by darkwizard42 on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @07:08PM (#22540947)
When you get hired as a construction contractor to finish a job, you don't get to kick back and do whatever you want while the job is "active."

You can choose to work on the roof before the windows if you want, but ultimately you have to deliver a completed project.

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