> There are lots of jobs where some people choose to work the slow hours.
And the employment agreement typically does not allow the employee to also work for a competitor during their employment. And there is nothing stopping the employer from changing or reducing the hours, unless the employment agreement has provisions about that.
You might think that Uber should hire some drivers on fixed shifts because there is some baseline of demand. The issue is, in a growing number of cities, AV's play that role.
There are some examples where employees have to work specific shifts but still get paid less depending on what they're doing. Notably flight attendants. They might not get paid while waiting at the airport if the plane needs maintenance prior to boarding.
Flight attendants get paid $2.13 per hour while at the airport, until boarding is done.
They do get paid more to fly, but it is of course a more skilled job than an Uber driver, and requires special training and testing that not everyone passes. And they cannot just work when they want to. They get assigned schedules by the airline.
There might be some ability to swap a flight with other flight attendants, and there might be some sort of bidding process of varying effectiveness depending on the airline, but at the end of the day it is not a flexible role like Uber.
And the employment agreement typically does not allow the employee to also work for a competitor during their employment. And there is nothing stopping the employer from changing or reducing the hours, unless the employment agreement has provisions about that.
You might think that Uber should hire some drivers on fixed shifts because there is some baseline of demand. The issue is, in a growing number of cities, AV's play that role.
There are some examples where employees have to work specific shifts but still get paid less depending on what they're doing. Notably flight attendants. They might not get paid while waiting at the airport if the plane needs maintenance prior to boarding.