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Uber Contract 'Gibberish', Says MP Investigating Gig Economy (theguardian.com)
A committee of MPs has lambasted Uber's contracts with drivers as "gibberish" and "almost unintelligible" as the company attempts to ensure its drivers remain self-employed. From a report: Frank Field, chair of the work and pensions select committee that is carrying out an investigation into the so-called gig economy, said: "Quite frankly the Uber contract is gibberish. They are well aware that many, if not most, of their drivers speak English as a second language -- they recently lost a court case trying to escape Transport for London's new English testing rules for private hire drivers -- yet their contract is almost unintelligible." [...] Publishing full details of Uber's contract terms, along with those for the takeaway courier firm Deliveroo and Amazon, Field said all three used some kind of "egregious clause" which attempted to prevent people challenging their "self-employed" designation, although neither Uber's nor Amazon's contract went as far as Deliveroo's, in the committee's view.
WTF is it any concern of the government, what sort of contract free citizens of able body and sound mind enter into with each other?
Ah, I get it. After willingly entering into the contract, some drivers are tempted to demand more, and the politicians — always greedy for more taxe... , err, wealth to spread around — are happy to "fight" for them...
Pay no attention to the green men from taxi companies either...
What's hilarious is that Uber is hiring these Left wing celebrities to wage its PR war — Obama's hacks and now Adriana Huffington... Just imagine, what these people would have been saying on the matter, if they weren't bought and paid for by Uber already...
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
Since government is what we have when a lot of people banded together to avoid being the prey of petty warlords it is very much the business of government to step in when it appears some are preying on others. Hence the attitudes of governments to crime and onerous contracts - it's illegal to sell yourself into slavery and dealing with lesser exploitation is also a core business of a government.
Of course you knew that "mi", but you just want to pull a fast one and justify all exploitation by pretending that government is something "other" instead of for the people and of the people.