Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 18:52:49 on Wed, 17 Aug
2016, tim... 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/

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articl...ts-its-drivers

https://thinkprogress.org/the-uber-r...4bc#.lrqvkjwcu

http://money.cnn.com/2016/07/28/tech...pool-timeouts/

http://mentalfloss.com/article/67010...nd-its-drivers

Quote:
Uber tells drivers that they should accept 80 percent of all the ride
requests they receive, but "the closer to 100 percent the better." And
while one of the biggest draws of Uber is that drivers get to set their own
hours, they’re encouraged to drive as much as possible. “If you drive 50
hours a week you get 10 percent on top of what you made that week as a
bonus,” Barrett says. Most are on the road for fewer than 15 hours a week,
according to Uber data.