Uber/Lyft are just a platform. Nothing more!
Much like a lot of YouTubers rely on YouTube for their livelihood, they too aren't classified as employees. But drivers who use Uber and Lyft to connect to riders are being mandated to be treated as employees. There is a lot of grey area in AB5 and I don't understand why uber/lyft are specifically targetted? I understand covid has rendered a lot of people without income, but gig economy is built on the concept of having unsteady income and complete freedom to work for N number of companies. Like YouTube/TikTok you may use uber/lyft full time or part time, can suddenly stop working for months and resume whenever you feel like. I feel its a true power for skilled as well as unskilled people to earn money. Politicians are just using this pandemic as a way to give drivers a false impression that they care about them when they clearly don't.
Ikr, imagine people saying sellers on Amazon should be employees. Driving with Uber is a choice.
Now people supporting AB5 would say, amazon sellers set price by themselves but Uber/Lyft doesn't allow that. Okay if Uber/Lyft start giving that freedom to drivers (which Uber has done it BTW in cali), will judge rollback the mandate? I seriously don't think so
No one even blinked due to the changes Uber made, such as letting drivers set prices. It’s all political bs.
Americans see Healthcare as the responsibility of their employers, not the government. IMO the government did a really great job deflecting their responsibility in this. First the government doesn't step in to regulate prices, which makes Healthcare ridiculously expensive, then finds private companies as scapegoats to pay for inflated Healthcare prices. If Healthcare was as accessible as it is in other countries, nobody would bother if Uber and lyft drivers are FTE or not. It is a stretch argument just to get uninsured people insured. That should've been the government's problem.
It's gonna be a long battle. Winter is coming!!
:( probably right
The beacon of capitalism is turning into a socialist sh******. Sorry my friend, but it was great while it lasted.
Airbnb should be suppressed instead of uber lyft. Airbnb heated the housing market in a unprecedented way
Bc Uber/Lyft drivers don’t want to get real jobs and whine about driving people around when it was never meant for people to do as their FT job
If that's true, let them set prices and don't punish them if they don't want to take specific rides. Freelancers/contractors are easy to classify if you actually let them be a free market.
Drivers do set their own rates in California.
Uber/Lyft is not a platform like Amazon and eBay marketplaces sellers. On eBay I can choose what I want to sell, list it at any price I want, ship it in any way I want, etc. On Uber, Uber controls the price and dictates the route. A driver cannot even see where they are taking their customer before they accept the ride. Uber sets the price and takes their cut. There is no "control" for an Uber driver the way an Amazon or eBay seller has. So no, it isn't simply a marketplace. On Amazon, it would be the equivalent of Amazon saying "hey I want to hire 300 independent contractors to open a store on Amazon but Amazon decides the products the sellers need to put on their store as well as the price on each product and how to ship each product via UPS".
Hey just want to point out it's not entirely true. Our product does allow "setting prices", "seeing the destination before accepting the ride".... just maybe not in all cases but still we don't point a gun to the driver forcing him to accept all trips
I tend to agree..
Yeah like Amazon is just a platform, Prime Video/Netflix are just a platform. No one asks Amazon to consider sellers as their employees..