The Gig Economy

[Dill]

(05-09-2019, 05:06 PM)Au165 Wrote: 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. 

Many people want benefits now because they have either lost ones they had or fewer employers are offering them. Part of the larger picture employers like to close out of discussion of wages benefits.

But is it possible that many Uber drivers WOULD become taxi drivers, or full time Uber drivers, if they could? That would be especially interesting to know in areas where Taxis have gone out of business because Uber was able to deploy so many "exempt employees."