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Re:Rideshare operations are being suspended in California by function_seven on Thursday August 20, 2020 @03:23PM (#24227552)
Both of those examples aren't similar at at all.

Your freelance tutoring is not employer/employee work. You're a freelancer. You set your own hours and rates.

Lawyers do not work for multiple law firms, choosing which firm to work for as they see fit. Whereas drivers very often work for both Lyft and Uber (and Postmates or Grubhub, etc) at the same time.

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Re:Rideshare operations are being suspended in California by xzel on Thursday August 20, 2020 @03:29PM (#24227642)
Yes neither of my examples were exactly the same. I'm talking about feel and results and specifically I wasn't talking about how current drivers operate, I was talking about how the resulting circumstance might exist in the future.

But to go back to the tutoring example: if I was working for a tutoring company, agreed to take clients between lets say 1-5 PM, and the rate was set by the company, would that be similar enough?

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Re:Rideshare operations are being suspended in California by sushid on Thursday August 20, 2020 @04:02PM (#24228137)
No, you're a contractor in that example. There are high fixed costs to hiring an employee. You're not going to get anyone on board with these micro-shifts, period.
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Re:Rideshare operations are being suspended in California by Anon1096 on Thursday August 20, 2020 @03:33PM (#24227687)
No, because tutoring companies don't give "microshifts" for this exact reason.
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