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CNET, Business Insider, techcrunch and many others report on Hillary's beef with "on-demand/gig economy". Specifically:
"Many Americans are making extra money renting out a small room, designing websites, selling products they design themselves at home, or even driving their own car," Clinton said during a speech at the New School in New York City. "This on-demand, or so-called 'gig economy,' is creating exciting opportunities and unleashing innovation. But it's also raising hard questions about workplace protections and what a good job will look like in the future."
"Fair pay and fair scheduling, paid family leave and earned sick days, child care are essential to our competitiveness and growth," the former secretary of state said, referring to benefits not accorded to independent contractors such as drivers at Uber.
Meanwhile, others are quick to point that her "main super PAC decisively favored Uber over conventional cabs by a 25:1 margin" (doh, she didn't say Uber is bad, only that it is evil toward its empl... err... contractors) and Rand Paul tweets: "America shouldn't take advice on the sharing economy from someone who has been driven around in a limo for 30 years." (yeah, Dr Paul, zillions of male gynecologists were never pregnant, of course they know nothing about giving birth).
Original Submission
(Score: 2) by shortscreen on Wednesday July 15 2015, @07:14AM
Parent has been modded troll but he does have a point. Adding an additional employee to the rolls carries a lot of overhead. This can be a bad thing, for instance when you end up working a bunch of mandatory overtime because your employer has a financial disincentive to higher enough staff.
As for paid time off, I think it's overrated. I realize that some people are underpaid and/or financially irresponsible and would run into trouble if they had to take time off that was unpaid. I am not one of those people, and these are separate problems. Instead, I have a set number of paid days I can take for this purpose or that purpose, and it's all spelled out in various laws and corporate policy manuals. If I am going to a funeral I'm supposed to provide the HR douches with a copy of a death certificate (I'm pretty sure that anyone who is willing to accept a job title containing the term "human resources" is necessarily a douche). If I have jury duty I need to show documentation from the court. If I'm going to the doctor I need a doctor's note. Etc. In my mind, none of this is my employer's business, just as with anything else I'm doing when I'm not at work. But for some reason, there are people who like the idea of their employer as their parent/guardian/feudal-lord, and having HR's nose in their personal business just so they can be paid to not work.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2015, @08:15AM
Of course the parent was modded troll, he is jmorris! He is a troll! And one with a particular lack of humor. So back to you, since you are defending trolls, what was your point again? You have a job? That's good! Keep it up, buster. Join a union as soon as you can, or you will be toast.
(Score: 2, Disagree) by shortscreen on Wednesday July 15 2015, @05:22PM
jmorris is not (always) a troll. It's just that moderators keep missing the "disagree" category and selecting "troll" by mistake. They're only separated in the list by three other items, so I guess it's an easy mistake to make.