There’s a lot of discussion in this thread about whether or not it’s a good idea to force Uber and Lyft to classify drivers as employees.
I think that discussion is a tangent the real issue.
California’s elected officials already ended that discussion by writing it into law. If you live in California and don’t like the law you can call or write your representative and see if they’ll repeal or change it.
But that law is the law. It seems unlikely that Uber and Lyft will win this appeal.
What we have here are two corporations ignoring the law because they don’t agree with it, and the “hire lawyers to endlessly fight this” number is lower than the “paying payroll tax for all our drivers” number on the spreadsheet.
Just my opinion, it’s frankly disturbing how many people are ready to jump to these companies’ defense. They’re proclaiming imminent disaster, that this business model can’t possibly work with W2 employees, but I doubt that’s true.
Nothing stops Uber and Lyft from allowing their W2 employees to make their own schedules, and nothing stops them from hiring directly from the app with quick approval. They just don’t want to pay their share of the payroll tax, and they don’t want to provide family and medical leave that their upper caste employees enjoy.
I think that discussion is a tangent the real issue.
California’s elected officials already ended that discussion by writing it into law. If you live in California and don’t like the law you can call or write your representative and see if they’ll repeal or change it.
But that law is the law. It seems unlikely that Uber and Lyft will win this appeal.
What we have here are two corporations ignoring the law because they don’t agree with it, and the “hire lawyers to endlessly fight this” number is lower than the “paying payroll tax for all our drivers” number on the spreadsheet.
Just my opinion, it’s frankly disturbing how many people are ready to jump to these companies’ defense. They’re proclaiming imminent disaster, that this business model can’t possibly work with W2 employees, but I doubt that’s true.
Nothing stops Uber and Lyft from allowing their W2 employees to make their own schedules, and nothing stops them from hiring directly from the app with quick approval. They just don’t want to pay their share of the payroll tax, and they don’t want to provide family and medical leave that their upper caste employees enjoy.