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Would you want to be an employee of Uber & Lyft? The CA Bill AB5 may make you an employee!
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We will just end up back being taxi drivers. Uber exploded and now it'll implode back to just a regular taxi company, where the drivers are dedicated full-time professionals.
The concept of rideshare and people driving in their spare time... whatever happened to that?
What's Uber anyway, taxi company with an app.
Right. We have always know this but Uber kept claiming they’re not. (In order to skirt the laws and regulations.)
And now all the taxi companies are gone and we have done a full circle.
What's Uber anyway, a taxi company with an app
In your article you say:
Don't ICs have to pay taxes just the same as employees? Is the problem that they are underreporting income?
Over 80% of rideshare drivers take the 58 cents a mile deduction, they don't pay taxes. IC are supposed to pay quarterly taxes and into social security. That's when they figure out that they've been losing money. Individual taxes compared to employment taxes plus half of social security taxes paid by the employer will dwarf what the so called IC UBER and Lyft drivers are paying.
Nope. That would be it for me. Not interested in being someone's bitch. IC or bust for me.
You're not exactly an IC now, you're being treated like an employee in IC clothing. The only thing you decide is when to turn your app on and off, even that's being taken away now after you turn a couple of requests down. These evil outfits need a break check, AB5 is it. I don't want to be an employee either but at 60/21 rates, game is over.
As employees you will see they will control us. Tell us when we can and can't work. Tell us where to work. We'll each have a boss. Do you want a boss? Do you want to have to explain yourself to the midwest regional driver manager when you don't show up for work one day?
The grass is always greener... Something needs to change but AB5 is not the answer.
They're doing that now through their algorithms. So this so called flexibility and freedom is equal to a vast majority of drivers earning less than minimum wage with no rights?