{"id":6324,"date":"2015-04-17T08:03:03","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T14:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=6324"},"modified":"2015-04-17T08:03:03","modified_gmt":"2015-04-17T14:03:03","slug":"meet-the-lawyer-taking-on-uber-and-the-rest-of-the-on-demand-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=6324","title":{"rendered":"Meet the lawyer taking on Uber and the rest of the on-demand economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fusion.net\/story\/118401\/meet-the-lawyer-taking-on-uber-and-the-on-demand-economy\/\">Kashmir Hill<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In recent months, Liss-Riordan has filed lawsuits against Uber, Lyft, Homejoy, Postmates, and Try Caviar\u2014five of the largest on-demand start-ups in the world. These suits all boil down to a rather simple allegation: these companies pay the people who supply the equipment and manpower that power their businesses like independent contractors, while burdening them with the work expectations of employees. Representatives of Uber, Lyft, Homejoy and Caviar declined to comment on pending litigation, and Postmates did not respond to request for comment.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;Harold Lichten, Liss-Riordan\u2019s law firm partner, describes her as \u201ca pit bull with a chihuahua in her mouth\u201d when it comes to suing on-demand start-ups. \u201cShe will make life as difficult as possible for these companies,\u201d he said. \u201cHere\u2019s Uber \u2014 this business model with $40 billion behind it, that is seen as the future \u2014 but if she\u2019s correct about their needing to classify all of these drivers as employees, it destroys that model. And it means all these venture capital investors who have poured millions of dollars into the company have bought a pig in a poke.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kashmir Hill: In recent months, Liss-Riordan has filed lawsuits against Uber, Lyft, Homejoy, Postmates, and Try Caviar\u2014five of the largest on-demand start-ups in the world. These suits all boil down to a rather simple allegation: these companies pay the people who supply the equipment and manpower that power their businesses like independent contractors, while burdening [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6324"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6325,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6324\/revisions\/6325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}