Legal Exposure of Uber in Gig Economy

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MEMO.............................................................................................................................................2
Introduction/ Summary 2
Uber in Gig Economy 2
Background 3
Principle of Agency 3
The responsibility of Uber towards the conduct of its drivers 5
Recommendations 5
Conclusion 6
References 8

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MEMO
To: Support Entrepreneur, An investment firm
From: Markian White
Date: 22-02-2019
Re: - Legal Exposure of Uber
Introduction/ Summary
A gig economy can be understood as a free market system where businesses contact the
independent workers for the short-term assignment (Welby, 2018). In such an economy,
temporary employment/ positions are common. This economy provides the freelancer liberty to
choose the assignment of his or her own wish and they get the remuneration for each of such
assignment. This kind of relationship proves beneficial for the employer as well as for worker.
On one side, the employer can save the cost of training, resources, equipment and workplace
maintenance by using this mode of working, workers can maintain the work-life balance on the
other side. Further, such contracts make the schedule of workers and employer flexible in
comparison to traditional employment contracts.
Due to such contracts, the image of such workers emerging as an entrepreneur rather than
the employee. Workers can take the assignments from multiple organizations and are not tied
with the rules of any single business.
Uber in Gig Economy
Uber is one of such business who provides independent assignments to drivers. The
question in such a situation is to check who will be liable towards a third party. It has been