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ember.org, at 07:48:48 on Thu, 18 Aug 2016, Recliner
remarked:
If there is a valid criticism of Uber, it's that it treats its
drivers as employees, but pays them as if they're self-employed. So
it doesn't provide employee benefits, but expects them to follow the
sort of rules that employees.

The "following rules for employees" is one of the acid tests in the
UK for whether you are actually an employee or not, irrespective of
what your contract says.

I don't believe that it treats its drivers like employees.

Perhaps recliner can expand on what "expects them to..." involves.

http://fortune.com/2015/06/19/it-won...ike-employees/

That's a long list of things where Uber *doesn't* treat its drivers as
employees (such as providing them with cars, various employment benefits
and so on).
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Roland Perry