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Re:Uber Tries to Remotely Encrypt Corporate Data During Gove... by djoldman on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @09:48PM (#9615636)
I don't know anything about the formal structure of working as an Uber driver, but could Uber make the argument that their drivers work for the passengers and that Uber merely facilitates the connecting of drivers to passengers?
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Re:Uber Tries to Remotely Encrypt Corporate Data During Gove... by striking on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @10:07PM (#9615694)
I think Canada's revenue service wanted to obtain evidence that money went through Uber from consumers to employees. If it were possible to pay any Uber rider directly (perhaps with a separate payment to Uber) then Canada couldn't call Uber drivers "employees." But they are, really. Uber processes the transaction and skims some off the top while passing on the rest to a driver. So Uber drivers are employees in Canada (or will be soon, at any rate)
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Re:Uber Tries to Remotely Encrypt Corporate Data During Gove... by giaour on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @11:59PM (#9615997)
That's quite an autocorrect snafu.
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Re:Uber Tries to Remotely Encrypt Corporate Data During Gove... by striking on Thursday May 28, 2015 @12:05AM (#9616008)
Um, yeah. I guess I had it coming, with the length of that comment and my inability to check my writing.
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