Commentary: Call Uber and Lyft drivers what they are: employees
by David Weil, Los Angeles Times
Jul 09, 2019
3 minutes
Uber and Lyft are mounting a full-court press to convince policymakers in California that their drivers should be classified as independent contractors and not employees. Uber's chief executive and Lyft's founders claim that the designation is critical for the companies. They recently argued "we can make independent work better if we update century-old employment laws." In other words, don't change our business model, just change the law.
As the former head of the federal agency that enforces some of those laws (which are nowhere near a century old), I understand the complexity
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