When 'Independent Contractors' Get Unemployment Benefits
With Uber, Lyft, and many other companies that provide many different services and products, the norm these days seems to be independent contractors. The companies avoid the huge taxes, expenses, and liabilities of having employees. The workers get the freedom to work on their own, managing their own schedules. One of the great unanswered questions, of course, is how much control is too much for independent contractors, without making them employees. Many lawsuits brought by workers and by third parties are about this very question.