Can people please put the country in the title. I have read multiple headlines thatjust say "court decides" with no explanation of what court or jurisdiction. Australia is not the only country where the employment status of Uber drivers is under question
Nice, another country where the gig economy suffers a big hit.
They need to have more countries stomp down on this. It sucks for workers, and just allows greedy C-suites to run away with even more money. Although what is missing here is doing this retroactively and making the CEO pay out of pocket all the missing money for the insurances and taxes.
I was in an Uber the other day when the driver started complaining, and rightfully so, that Uber only gives them roughly half of what they make and wondered why?
I explained how we allow monopolies here or duopolies to give the appearance of competition. In Europe there are competing services, to include functional public transportation, that drive the companies to pay their drivers a fair share.
Hell, how about you make them point out openly in the hiring literature that the car cost and maintenance is well above what they're paying you. Most people just think that The money they pay for their car, maintenance and insurance are getting fully covered by what Uber is paying them.
I got tboned by an Uber eats employee because they weren’t paying attention and ran a red light. The driver had only been driving for a few months, and had no business being rushed by some app to meet some quota. Because of them, I’m permanently fucked up.
This is too bad, wish you the best.
I already had a thought these apps are effectively decreasing safely of the cities for the profit, but haven't experienced it myself...
This only hurts working poor like me by making it harder for people to have quick temporary earnings. These rules are not about helping people or fairmess it's about messing up options so people are desperate enough to lock themselves into shitty jobs rather than have any self determination.
I don't know about your experience, but when I drove for Uber Eats, I had to quit after a few months because they arbitrarily cut my pay by about 80%. I was wearing my car down and burning my own gas to make less than $6/hr. I was struggling too, so much that I just couldn't afford to do that job anymore.
Uber promised investors the moon and now they can barely afford to pay their stakeholders back, if even that. Their unsustainable business practices, in a sane world, would have done them in years ago.