On: Uber must employ its drivers, Dutch court rules

[umanwizard]

Plenty of countries in Western Europe too have mandatory employee contributions to various social programs.

[nybble41 → umanwizard]

Every country that funds social programs with an income tax has mandatory employee contributions, differing only in the visibility of the cost to the employee (up-front taxes vs. a line-item in the pay stub vs. a "employer portion" which isn't reported to the employee but directly impacts the employee's wages).