Bloomberg Law
Feb. 9, 2018, 2:23 PM UTC

Gig Workers Have Scant Protection From Job Bias

Bloomberg Law - Staff Reports

By Jacquie Lee

A couple hopped into the back of Brian Davis’ Uber car, began chatting with him, and immediately concluded he was drunk. His words were so slurred that the pair stopped their ride and hailed a taxi.

Uber fired Davis a month later. But he wasn’t drunk. His slurred speech is the result of a motorcycle accident that left him with communication difficulties.

Davis, like the nearly 24 million other U.S. gig workers, isn’t protected by the federal law that prohibits employment discrimination against people with disabilities. That’s because the Americans With Disabilities Act applies to “employees,” and ...

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