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		icebraining on June 24, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Uber Takes Over a City Taxi drivers were already exempt from most of those labour laws - they were already considered contractors and didn't have overtime nor benefits.

hoopd on June 24, 2015 [–]

But they were actually contractors.

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