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Re:Uber and Lyft ordered by California judge to classify dri... by Polylactic_acid on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @02:47AM (#24117785)
The judge certainly does understand what is going here. Secure employment is being replaced with "gigs" to the point where a huge chunk of the country has no stable income and is one week away from homelessness.
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Re:Uber and Lyft ordered by California judge to classify dri... by seankimdesign on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @04:02AM (#24118207)
I guess that's one theory: Uber, purely by existing, somehow managed to significantly reduce the number of secure employment opportunities available in the US and lured happily employed people onto a life that's inches away from homelessness. In the same vein, if we were to shut down Uber right now and went back to the taxi model we should be able to salvage our economy.
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Re:Uber and Lyft ordered by California judge to classify dri... by LatteLazy on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @04:30AM (#24118365)
> Secure employment

vs

> At will employment

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Re:Uber and Lyft ordered by California judge to classify dri... by anticensor on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @07:44AM (#24119305)
This is not black-or-white. You can have parts of both.
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Re:Uber and Lyft ordered by California judge to classify dri... by LatteLazy on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @08:35AM (#24119626)
Can you? Not trying to argue, I am a limey brit so I don't know the exact details. /r/legaladvice seems to be filled with people being fired for no reason or just de-scheduled or having their wages cut and it's all perfectly legal...
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