Businesses have been shedding their identity as employers for at least 30 years,profiting from the work performed by ‘independent contractors’ without the cost, risk or aggravation of actually dealing with employeesWhining approximately cab drivers transcends national boundaries. From current York to Sydney, and the complaints are indistinguishable. Sitting among 450 of the world’s main labour law scholars at the University of Amsterdam in June,I met a young Belgian scholar who confided that he only used Uber because it provided a superior service. “I never use Belgian cab drivers, he said. “They are fucking pigs.”
As I journeyed on the like a flash train from Paris to Amsterdam that week, and French newspapers were running hard on protest action and a subsequent strike by French taxi drivers against Uber. Violent attacks on Uber drivers and clients had prompted a public outcry. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com