05-09-2019, 05:06 PM
(05-09-2019, 04:41 PM)fredtoast Wrote: You think they had not "justification" for organizing and protesting?
Coal miners in deadly working conditions? Yes. Uber drivers who signed up to work as contractors who simply want to be hired as employees because that's what they want? no. Again, they can do what they want in terms of protesting but it misguided. Their argument should be with the federal government who has now twice upheld these kind of services are in fact contractors.
If I hire someone to be an exempt employee due to the government definition of an exempt employee and he then decides he'd prefer to be non exempt, I am not a bad employer because I choose not to change his status simply because he wants me to. If they want to drive for a living they could become a taxi driver, but they won't. The reason they won't is because they don't want to actually be employees they just want employee benefits.
