{"id":584,"date":"2015-06-17T18:10:52","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T02:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/?p=584"},"modified":"2015-06-17T09:12:44","modified_gmt":"2015-06-17T17:12:44","slug":"uber-drivers-are-employees-doesnt-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/17\/uber-drivers-are-employees-doesnt-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Uber drivers are employees, doesn&#8217;t matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Wed Jun 17, 2015 10:32am EDT Related: REGULATORY NEWS, MARKETS, MUTUAL FUND CENTER, INDUSTRIALS<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Uber drivers are employees, not contractors -Calif. Labor Commission<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2015\/06\/17\/uber-california-idUSL1N0Z30X920150617\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2015\/06\/17\/uber-california-idUSL1N0Z30X920150617<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">There\u2019s a difference between an Uber driver who drives 10-15 hours a week and an Uber driver who drives 40-50 hours a week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Uber will make that case on appeal, then push hard for the limit to be set around 25-30.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">6 months from now, Uber\u2019s data scientists will find a statistical relationship that shows drivers who work less hours provide better customer service.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Uber will say that in the interests of providing the best experience, its engineers have changed the algorithm that selects drivers to prefer drivers who are under the legally agreed \u201ccap\u201d that divides part-time from full-time drivers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">5 years from now, Uber will launch it\u2019s fleet of self-driving cars, and the whole discussion will be irrelevant.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wed Jun 17, 2015 10:32am EDT Related: REGULATORY NEWS, MARKETS, MUTUAL FUND CENTER, INDUSTRIALS Uber drivers are employees, not contractors -Calif. Labor Commission http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2015\/06\/17\/uber-california-idUSL1N0Z30X920150617 There\u2019s a difference between an Uber driver who drives 10-15 hours a week and an Uber driver who drives 40-50 hours a week. Uber will make that case on appeal, then &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/17\/uber-drivers-are-employees-doesnt-matter\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Uber drivers are employees, doesn&#8217;t matter&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[460],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":585,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions\/585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}