{"id":178359,"date":"2018-12-23T19:01:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-24T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/12\/23\/bye-felicia-4\/"},"modified":"2018-12-23T19:01:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-24T00:01:00","slug":"bye-felicia-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/12\/23\/bye-felicia-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Bye Felicia\u2026\u2026\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/uber-loses-latest-uk-legal-bid-to-block-worker-rights-for-drivers-2018-12\">Uber&#8217;s business model has just become illegal in the UK<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Uber has lost its latest court bid to stop its British drivers being classified as workers, entitling them to rights such as the minimum wage, in a decision which jeopardizes the taxi app&#8217;s business model.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Two drivers successfully argued at a tribunal in 2016 that the Silicon Valley firm exerted significant control over them to provide an on-demand service, and that they should cease to be considered as self-employed, which gives few protections in law.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">An employment appeal tribunal upheld that decision last year, prompting Uber to go to the Court of Appeal. On Wednesday, a majority of judges there said they agreed with the previous verdicts and rejected Uber&#8217;s arguments.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Uber said it would appeal the verdict, meaning the legal process will continue.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span>\u2026\u2026\u2026<span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">In Britain, the self-employed are entitled to only basic protections such as health and safety, but workers receive the minimum wage, paid holidays and rest breaks. Uber has introduced a number of benefits for drivers this year.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Uber&#8217;s business model is predicated on abusing its workers and evading regulations.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s really nice to see the noose tightening.<\/p>\n<p>I just hope that the bubble bursts before the IPO, so that the early funders lose their shirts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like Uber&#8217;s business model has just become illegal in the UK: Uber has lost its latest court bid to stop its British drivers being classified as workers, entitling them to rights such as the minimum wage, in a decision which jeopardizes the taxi app&#8217;s business model.Two drivers successfully argued at a tribunal in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[365,368,450,371,407,437,486],"class_list":["post-178359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-business","tag-corruption","tag-employment","tag-europe","tag-justice","tag-regulation","tag-schadenfreude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178359"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}