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Re:Uber drivers are workers not self employed, Supreme Court... by vidarh on Friday February 19, 2021 @07:23AM (#26192369)
We pay either way. The question is whether we pay to subsidise businesses that otherwise would not be viable by compensating through the welfare system, or whether we make them actually compete on equal terms with companies that pay well enough for their workers to earn a living wage.
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Re:Uber drivers are workers not self employed, Supreme Court... by gruez on Friday February 19, 2021 @09:49AM (#26193716)
>or whether we make them actually compete on equal terms with companies that pay well enough for their workers to earn a living wage.

Is this what's actually happening here? Are there delivery/cab companies paying a fair wage that's being out-competed by uber? To my knowledge delivery/cab companies don't pay a fair wage in general.

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Re:Uber drivers are workers not self employed, Supreme Court... by vidarh on Friday February 19, 2021 @12:50PM (#26195735)
Depends very much on the company. In London there's a huge variety of private hire operators ranging from ones that are almost certainly worse than Uber - but also much smaller - to ones that do have well paid fully employed drivers.

The reason the smaller ones haven't faced more attention is that these actions usually require the person who wants employment status themselves to raise the issue and be prepared to take their employer to tribunal or court.

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