in the world of lawyers one name battling for rights of workers is the great lawyer named Shannon Liss-Riordan. While Terry Blue may not like it this lawyer is going after companies such as Uber who define workers as independent contractors and under no labor obligation of benefits from these start up companies. Terry would of taken this story but editors at the Left Shark decided he would be to bias in his reporting for Uber as he fucking hates taxi drivers and companies to the death, This is just latest in a debate over whether workers in the sharing economy are independent contractors or employees entitled to benefits and Shannon has been battling for workers rights in battles over wages and hour laws
that companies try to skirt over thinking they are above regulation and how they treat employees. She has even defended strip club workers against even more exploitation in more of an economic terms these women faced from the owner of clubs. Her goal is refining the definition of employment these investor-funded start ups are attempting to rewrite thanks to the massive amounts of money given to them by the wealthy class doing everything in their power to weaken the status of the average worker .The ultimate finding against companies like Handy and Uber could force them to pay Social Security, workers' compensation, and unemployment insurance when these companies get their day to explain in court what they are attempting to restructure in the worker-employee relationship of labor in this country. this womans work is very important for this country in legally battling the attempts to weaken workers rights and call them by a different name so they are not allowed unemployment and other rights that it took generations for labor to win.
. Uber and a company called Handy, which provides janitorial and maintenance labor and defines them as contractors are two companies in the crosshair of this lawyer as their practices have been egregious for years. She also took on fed Express some years ago as the company she took on in the case was FedEx Ground and Home Delivery.
The package-delivery giant had been classifying its drivers as independent contractors and not employees — even though, she argued, they had to buy and wear FedEx uniforms, drive trucks with the FedEx logo and pay for their own gas and expenses. A Massachusetts judge ruled in Liss-Riordan’s favor in the case, one of a number of lawsuits against FedEx at the time, 10 years ago. (FedEx has now successfully appealed, and it is back in court). As far as the Uber case goes, a final verdict against it could change how the company does business with its drivers and send shock waves through the on-demand technology application economy.
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