Europe inches closer to insisting gig workers are treated as employees / If it looks like a job, and is supervised like a job, it’ll be classified as a job::If it looks like a job, and is supervised like a job, it’ll be classified as a job
Good. The “gig-economy” is a framework in which working poor hustle for peanuts for the benefit of the richest. Fuck everything about it.
Amen, comrade.
Yeah I’m not sure how tech bros actually tricked everyone into working without employment. It’s good to hear that may be changing soon.
When you are unemployed for a few months, have rent, other bills to pay, and a family to feed, you accept any work that provides an income.
Yes, and that work should come with all the benefits of employment that workers have fought for through the generations.
Ads and promise of big salaries. When it started people were making more money so even some people quit their work and started driving for Uber. But the control have shifted.
Tech bros did shit, these r the MBAs and bankers who find new ways to exploit the common man. Tech bros gave a new platform to them.
It was fascinating to watch the rideshare companies convince their San Francisco drivers to actively support and evangelize the bill in California that ruined their ability to get benefits and employment protections, then turn around and extract so much value away from those drivers in the period since that most of those drivers, who tended to be American-born and have relatively nice cars, have been replaced by recent immigrants driving fleet-owned older cars. I would also not be shocked to learn that the latter are being cheated by whoever signs them up and helps them navigate Lyft and Uber’s processes.
Good, these companies are exploitative.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The directive [PDF], which still needs to be adopted by EU member states, provides guidance on how to determine the employment status of those working for digital platforms, and constrains the use of algorithmic systems for worker management.
The agreement also requires human decision making when employers dismiss staff or suspend their access to platforms, to prevent the unchecked use of algorithmic personnel management.
The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) hailed the provisional agreement, while warning that the text waits final edits and implementation.
“We still need to scrutinize the final text of this agreement closely, but what is clear is that there is a genuine attempt to address the grave problems that working people face,” declared ETUC confederal secretary Ludovic Voet in a statement.
In the US, digital platform companies have been largely successful in preserving their ability to classify workers as independent contractors.
In California, for example, DoorDash, Lyft, and Uber waged a successful ballot measure campaign and subsequent court battle to convince voters to support their labor practices.
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