The underlying issue is RAMPANT employee misclassification. Most of these people aren’t contractors, they are just illegally misclassified.
this post was submitted on 10 Aug 2023
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gig workers are being unfairly terminated, or "deactivated," as the companies call it.
I, for one, loathe our new techbro overlords.
Workers being exploited is nothing new though. Same overlords, different labels.
But usually there are some laws protecting them, they didn't have any.
THESE DAYS there are some laws protecting most workers. Those laws were written in the blood of striking miners.
My DoorDasher picked up my order the other day and went to a mall parking lot and sat there for an hour until the order was cancelled since DD couldn’t get ahold of them. They presumably ate it. They should be deactivated. Bad workers shouldn’t get extra protections.