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Re:Uber must employ its drivers, Dutch court rules by brnt on Monday September 13, 2021 @08:50AM (#28510845)
If you're a freelancer, a client could not be enforcing the demand that you don't work for other similar employers, nor demand that you take every single gig that they ask you to do.

Uber wants it both ways, and correctly, the courts have stopped them from doing so.

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Re:Uber must employ its drivers, Dutch court rules by lstodd on Monday September 13, 2021 @10:18AM (#28511814)
> demand that you don't work for other similar employers, nor demand that you take every single gig

That's news for me.

Where I live, every single taxi driver has an app open for every uber-like company in the city, including Uber (there are at least four that I know of, most certainly more).

They just pick what they feel like at the moment.

How this is not freelancing I cannot fathom.

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