Uber/Lyft/Sidecar drivers are clearly EMPLOYEES. The app companies are clearly EMPLOYERS. The rule of law is the employment classification stated in the IRS tax code and the DEPARTMENT OF LABOR rules and regs. These so called app companies are transportation companies that CONTROLS everything-the money, the rates, hiring/firing, paying the app/on app off or gap insurance premiums (All fraudulent), and they control the app.
The class action suit representing millions of past and present drivers for these companies is very solid. The drivers have been cheated out of earned income (minimum wage shortfalls, gratuities, and overtime. They have not been reimbursed for their personal insurance premiums, vehicle maintenance, fuel, tolls and parking fees, social security taxes on earnings, workmen’s comp.
The 400,000+ drivers who oppose employee status probably evade all taxes and especially the self-employment tax.
These drivers have no permits or commercial public auto liability insurance. They are illegal.
Farmers, Geico, USAA, Erie supply a hybrid policy for a small uptick in certain states for the drivers if they convert their private policy to their policy. These companies have not thought it through and do not have a full deck. If an accident, injury, or death or a driver criminal incident occurs, the plaintiff’s attorneys will be all over these companies for issuing such commercial coverage fraudulently to an unpermitted driver and vehicle. Insurance fraud is a felony.
Uber claims on its web sites and all social media marketing it is only an app company that employs no drivers or owns any vehicles and disclaims everything. So by that, each driver must obtain an individual permit from the state regulatory agency and each city where they operate and comply with screening including 10 fingerprinting through their agency( not an outside private agency), drug testing, physicals, vehicle inspections, driving records checks. TO date, no driver has done so.
IRS, SEC, USDOJ have ongoing investigations into these unregulated companies. The aforementioned insurance companies should rescind all hybrid policies immediately.
Uber/Lyft/Sidecar drivers are clearly EMPLOYEES. The app companies are clearly EMPLOYERS. The rule of law is the employment classification stated in the IRS tax code and the DEPARTMENT OF LABOR rules and regs. These so called app companies are transportation companies that CONTROLS everything-the money, the rates, hiring/firing, paying the app/on app off or gap insurance premiums (All fraudulent), and they control the app.
The class action suit representing millions of past and present drivers for these companies is very solid. The drivers have been cheated out of earned income (minimum wage shortfalls, gratuities, and overtime. They have not been reimbursed for their personal insurance premiums, vehicle maintenance, fuel, tolls and parking fees, social security taxes on earnings, workmen’s comp.
The 400,000+ drivers who oppose employee status probably evade all taxes and especially the self-employment tax.
These drivers have no permits or commercial public auto liability insurance. They are illegal.
Farmers, Geico, USAA, Erie supply a hybrid policy for a small uptick in certain states for the drivers if they convert their private policy to their policy. These companies have not thought it through and do not have a full deck. If an accident, injury, or death or a driver criminal incident occurs, the plaintiff’s attorneys will be all over these companies for issuing such commercial coverage fraudulently to an unpermitted driver and vehicle. Insurance fraud is a felony.
Uber claims on its web sites and all social media marketing it is only an app company that employs no drivers or owns any vehicles and disclaims everything. So by that, each driver must obtain an individual permit from the state regulatory agency and each city where they operate and comply with screening including 10 fingerprinting through their agency( not an outside private agency), drug testing, physicals, vehicle inspections, driving records checks. TO date, no driver has done so.
IRS, SEC, USDOJ have ongoing investigations into these unregulated companies. The aforementioned insurance companies should rescind all hybrid policies immediately.