We know Uber and Lyft are breaking the law every day. What are the real impacts?
Calling employees “contractors”
What Uber and Lyft are doing is known as “misclassifying” their employees. By claiming their workers are “contractors” instead these companies aren’t just breaking the law – they’re ripping us all off.
Avoiding taxes and reponsibilities
Why do gig companies break the law? Billions of reasons. Avoiding taxes and failing to provide essential benefits to their workers means more profits for Silicon Valley and the CEOs.
Causing real harm to real workers
No paid sick days. No unemployment insurance. No fair scheduling protections. No chance to join a union. The lives of gig workers are worse because Uber and Lyft won’t follow the law. We can’t let them legitimize the abuse by writing their own special exemptions.
