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Amazon insists striking delivery drivers don’t really work for Amazon
https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/18/23765330/amazon-delivery-drivers-union-teamsters
Amazon doesn’t want anyone to think the drivers work for it.
A lawyer almost certainly told execs that this was an illegal attempt to misclassify employees. I think we're getting to a place where if people do things even though a lawyer tells them it's illegal, they are personally liable (jointly with the org itself) for the decision even in the context of a limited liability organization. And if the lawyer is incompetent enough to tell them that it's legal, they need to be disbarred and potentially liable for the damages.