Oddbean

"Federal labor regulator says delivery drivers are Amazon employees" Previously Amazon avoided working with unions, by classifying employees as "third-party contractors". Now a regional National Labor Relations Board director said that the company is really an employer. And so this ruling will essentially force Amazon to work with unions. You know it's ironic that left-wing Jeff Bezos, who tries to force an agenda of government control to supposedly protect the everyday person, is actually the one who is trying to dance and bullshit his way around the very "Big Brother" laws he promotes. Even his own paper the Washington Post admits defeat: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/08/22/amazon-teamsters-delivery-drivers/

They're gonna get sued by Amazon and this declaration will not stand to scrutiny in court. After chevron especially, but generally, hiring contractors is not the same as hiring employees. Trucking companies do it all the time. The only time you can really get in trouble doing it is when the terms of your contract are similar to those of an employment contract, for example paying by the hour or requiring a set number of hours of work and things like that, basically if it's obvious youre creating an employment contract but not calling it that to avoid labor law.