Uber wants to redefine employment
In an accompanying letter to Congress, Sanjukta Paul, an assistant law professor at
Wayne State University, and Marshall Steinbaum, an assistant economics professor at
the University of Utah, wrote that if the federal government pays for Uber and Lyft
drivers’ unemployment insurance it could incentivize “states to side with the platforms
on employment status, since doing so unlocks funds they would otherwise have to collect
from the platforms.”