{"id":206,"date":"2015-06-04T22:42:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T22:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2015\/06\/04\/sharing-economy-ride-share-meet-transportation-policy\/"},"modified":"2015-06-04T22:42:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T22:42:00","slug":"sharing-economy-ride-share-meet-transportation-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/sharing-economy-ride-share-meet-transportation-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharing Economy, Ride Share Meet Transportation Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans and Democrats joining forces raising questions over whether in the sharing economy that ride share calls home, are drivers indpendent contracts or are they employees who aren&#8217;t receiving the benefit of employment?<\/p>\n<p>Liberal Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) to a Republican member of the National Labor Relations Board are leaning toward the latter- that the drivers are employees and that companies are avoiding paying benefits. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rest assured, Liberals and Republicans rational is rooted in\u00a0different places. The liberals are primarily concerned about the worker and the republicans are concerned about how the economy adapts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an issue\u00a0being litigated in court, but some think the NLRB may act first. The FTC is hosting a sharing economy symposium in July. <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/transportation\/243840-ubers-model-under-fire-from-washington#main-content\">The Hill\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans and Democrats joining forces raising questions over whether in the sharing economy that ride share calls home, are drivers indpendent contracts or are they employees who aren&#8217;t receiving the benefit of employment?<\/p>\n<p>Liberal Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) to a Republican member of the National Labor Relations Board are leaning toward the latter- that the drivers are employees and that companies are avoiding paying benefits. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rest assured, Liberals and Republicans&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,10,26,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-trend","category-legislative-trend","category-regulatory-trend","category-ride-share","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}