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California Overturns Uber's Appeal: Its Drivers Are Employees, Not Contractors

Posted by timothy on from the regulators-doing-what-they-do dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Uber's third attempt to overturn a California court ruling stating that its drivers are employees and not contractors has ended in failure, with the appeal dismissed by the California Employment Development Department (EDD). The California Labor Commission ruled in June on the matter, and in a later appeal one judge effectively decided that the difference between 'firing' a driver and deactivating their account is purely semantic.

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  1. Re:What's the difference? by whoever57 · · Score: 4, Informative

    What's the difference between an employee and a contractor? The contractor doesn't receive any benefits. Since the uber drivers do not receive benefits, they are contractors.

    False dichotomy. Many employees do not get benefits.

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  2. Re:Yes, they are employees by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Based on this reasoning, pretty much every franchisee ever is an employee, not an owner.

    Take a close look at the ads sometime. See that asterisk? Follow it to the matching asterisk that says "prices may vary".

    A franchiser often does set "recommended prices". And products, but the franchisee has some discretion, and that's the difference between them and employees.

    Granted, when you're talking operations the size of McDonalds, there's not a whole lot of discretion allowed before they simply yank your franchise and give it to someone else, but that's the Free Market for you!