What? Actual ridesharing in a ride sharing service? Crazy talk!

I was reading this and thinking about the other Uber articles on this and Gawker. If Uber didn’t have to screw over its employees, I mean “independent contractors” it wouldn’t be hemmoraging money as much.

Exactly. It’s not hard to see that all of the admin overhead is what bogs down their numbers. If corporate Uber is taking a 20% cut of income, then they have to spend less than that on everything else to be profitable. And right now, they’re not, by a long shot.

Uber is not “subsidizing” it’s drivers - let’s make that clear. If anything drivers are the ones subsidizing Uber since they provide the vehicle and bear the cost of phone bills, insurance, maintenance, gas, and depreciation. Uber has essentially no overhead to pay except for its legislative legal agenda. The…

There are private military or army companies that are contracted, but the soldiers working for the company can’t be independent contractors. The guidelines for worker’s classification apply to everyone, including military companies. I would strongly suggest you study all these guidelines given by the IRS and DOL.…

I replied different comments you made separately. That’s why you see different responses.

Your argument doesn’t make sense. If you run a business and sell products, do you set your prices or let other businesses and people set your prices? If drivers are supposedly independent they should set their own rates for the…

They IGNORE THEIR LEGAL RIGHTS of being an independent contractor or employee. They just believe that being an independent contractor equals freedom of your schedule and you pay for everything else. No... the thing is, if Uber wants the drivers be independent contractors, they can NOT have ANY financial or behavioral…

There are strippers that have sued businesses that have misclassified them (google it. Example: Hart v. Rick’s cabaret).
FedEx drivers were misclassfied and FedEx had to pay millions for it. The same as home depot, sears, Lowe’s, microsoft and many more. Seems you haven’t realized this misclassification is going…

No, you don’t have it straight. See, it doesn’t matter what the contract says and what the drivers were signing for. What matters is how the relationship presents and this type of relationship violates tax and labor laws.

Being an independent contractor means you are your own business, you are self-employed. Means,…

“...you will get no benefits and not get paid an hourly wage or a yearly salary; you will get 80% of the fare and that is it,” and people still sign up, that’s not Uber’s fault.”

Yes it is Uber’s fault because it’s violating tax and labor laws. They can NOT have financial and behavioral control over the drivers that…

It’s unclear by the financial and behavioral control Uber has over the drivers. What part of that don’t you understand? Do you know what a true independent contractor is? If Uber wants to classify the drivers as independent contractors, they shouldn’t treat them as employees and shouldn’t have any financial and…

Being an independent contractor means you are your own business, you are self-employed. Means, YOU set your own rates and not someone else setting them for you. Means, Uber can NOT set the rates and can NOT decide how much the drivers should get paid for the rides. Uber should NOT decide if drivers can get tips or…

Let me help you out:

But when you get a job with benefits, you agree on those requirements beforehand. It’s a two-way street, and I’m sure most of the drivers affected here wouldn’t have much objection to agreeing to more requirements for greater rights and compensation.

I’d give this more than a star if I could.

To the drivers and Uber:

I would, personally, risk losing $24 if it meant a chance to recoup more of my losses. Not to mention, far too often companies get away with settlements that benefit the company and they don’t have to acknowledge any wrongdoing.

I don’t know all the finer details here, but if you’re facing the proposition of potentially losing only $24, why not roll the dice?