The lawyer taking on Uber and the rest of the on-demand economy

Post by tomjen3 » Tue, Apr 21, 2015, 8:07 PM UTC

amyjess wrote: post #56

pyrois wrote: post #9

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Well, it sounds like they maybe shouldn't be: > “Uber and Lyft can survive classifying drivers as employees,” she says. “It might cost them a little more, but it’s a successful concept. It’s not going to go away because we are trying to enforce the rules > And several on-demand companies, such as the house cleaning start-up MyClean and the food delivery service Munchery, already treat their workers as W-2 employees.…

> I wonder if Uber is fighting this because it will cut into profit margins and raise overhead costs, rather than because it is an existential threat. Uber is a young company, and they have yet to learn what most mature companies have learned. Big businesses like regulations. They don't mind jumping through whatever hoops are imposed by regulations, because they can afford to drop the money on it, they can treat the…