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The Verge is reporting: drivers for the smart-phone app dependent Uber and Lyft ride-hailing services will be staging a strike on Wednesday to protest low wages and lack of additional benefits. The strike is meant to coincide with Uber's forthcoming IPO.
Both Uber and Lyft are generally considered "technology platforms", that simply match impromptu individual drivers to passengers, rather than an employer. Drivers are currently considered "independent contractors" and not employees. As such, drivers do not have the same benefits as employees, and in some areas allows these companies to skirt regulations.
Given the distributed ad-hock nature of how drivers are acquired, it will be interesting to what effect, if any, this "strike" has.
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(Score: 2) by darkfeline on Wednesday May 08 2019, @03:12AM
Drivers get to choose when they work.
You could decide to only drive, say, 5-8pm on Thursdays and Uber/Lyft don't give a flying fuck. You could drive 80 hours a week and Uber/Lyft don't give a flying fuck.
That exactly matches your definition of an independent contractor so I don't see what argument you're trying to make.
Once you decide you want to work 10am-1pm on Tuesday, then the Uber/Lyft app will send you fares to work. Interpreting such a fare as being a "defined start and end" is extremely contrived.
That's like saying, a contractor shows up to a company for a day and the boss wants to pull him in for a one hour meeting at 1pm, bam, that contractor is now a fully fledged employee. I think not.
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