&gt;If you read the article, you&#x27;ll clearly see that they want to provide something<p>I know they said that. I just don&#x27;t believe it for a second.<p>They want a new legal designation for their employees that does not require them to provide any benefits at all. They claim that despite this new-found freedom from legal culpability they will <i>definitely</i> provide some benefits. Honest.<p>But don&#x27;t <i>force</i> us to provide benefits or anything.<p>The current status of their drivers as contractors opens them up to an awful lot of legal risk which they&#x27;d like to mitigate, ideally without it costing them anything other than an easily broken promise.