{"id":23468,"date":"2020-04-08T16:20:04","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T23:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=23468"},"modified":"2020-04-08T16:20:04","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T23:20:04","slug":"labor-groups-push-back-against-uber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=23468","title":{"rendered":"LABOR GROUPS PUSH BACK AGAINST UBER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 50 labor groups on Wednesday urged congressional leaders to reject Uber&#8217;s proposal for a new worker classification that would allow the ride sharing company to continue treating its drivers as contractors instead of employees.<\/p>\n<p>The groups said in their letter that Uber is &#8220;exploiting the moment to further strip protections from those on the front lines of the [coronavirus] crisis,&#8221; arguing that gig workers like Uber drivers should be reclassified as full employees.<\/p>\n<p>The letter comes after CEO Dara Khosrowshahi sent his own letter to President Trump last month asking for a classification that could let Uber maintain the flexibility of having independent contractors while adding some basic worker protections.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rather than stand up for his employees, Mr. Khosrowshahi is seizing an unprecedented public health crisis to push forward a radical annihilation of our labor laws,&#8221; said groups like the AFL-CIO, National Employment Law Project (NELP) and Gig Workers Rising.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is expanding a business model that has undermined the quality of life for Uber drivers and other workers,&#8221; they added.<\/p>\n<p>The Hill has reached out to Uber for comment on the letter.<\/p>\n<p>The company has defended its labor classification for workers, saying it allows flexibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 50 labor groups on&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23469,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23468\/revisions\/23469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}