Re:Uber: Disability Laws Don’t Apply to Us
by gohrt on Friday May 22, 2015 @11:28AM
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Uber is clearly the one provisioning the service to the customer, and is a large company. The drivers are contractors who do work for Uber, not for the customer. The customer pays Uber, Uber pays the driver. Uber is the car service, and must support its disabled customers.
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Re:Uber: Disability Laws Don’t Apply to Us
by Dylan16807 on Friday May 22, 2015 @03:50PM
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I think that particular argument is pretty weak. Uber notifies the drivers of a pickup opportunity and they have the option of taking it and doing what the customer says for a while.
There's a lot of things that suggest Uber to be an employer, but the rides themselves seem very contractor-y.
Taking a percentage fee for putting driver and customer together leans away from employment, in my view. There are a lot of types of middlemen that are not employers.