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Amazon Prime Now Delivery Drivers Sue Over Classification As Contractors (itworld.com)
itwbennett writes: A proposed class-action suit filed by 4 delivery drivers for the app-based Amazon Prime Now service alleges that the company misclassifies its workers as contractors when the terms the drivers follow 'fit many of the hallmarks that would classify them as employees,' according to Leonard Carder, the law firm representing the drivers. Among those terms: The drivers reported to and worked exclusively out of an Amazon warehouse, were scheduled to work fixed shifts during Amazon's Prime Now service hours, and were required to wear shirts and hats bearing the Amazon Prime Now logo and carry a smartphone preloaded with the app, according to the complaint.
When a company breaks the law, any contract you signed is non-binding.
If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and sounds like a duck- it's a duck. It doesn't matter if you call it a contractor.
If amazon wants contractors then it needs to put the jobs up for bids, accept random contractors for a given job, be subject to occasional shortages, etc. Once it tries to "lock" the contractors into fixed hours and shifts- they are not contractors- they are employees.
It's really that simple.
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.