Meet the lawyer taking on Uber and the rest of the on-demand economy
"Here’s Uber, a business model with $40 billion behind it, that is seen as the future, but if she’s correct about their needing to classify all of these drivers as employees, it destroys that model."
Hasnain says:
"Liss-Riordan says that Uber, Lyft and other on-demand companies are making the same kind of arguments she’s seen before. “FedEx argued that it was a logistics operation, connecting people who wanted to deliver packages, not a delivery service. Strip clubs argued that dancers weren’t employees, that they were in the business of selling drinks and that naked women just danced on the side,” said Liss-Riordan. “These arguments have not gone well for these companies.”"
Posted on 2015-04-18T02:55:35+0000