It’s not. You as an employee or contractor aren’t entitled to a particular client being assigned to you against that clients wishes. Customers are allowed to pick their contractor
Comment on Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US
frog_brawler@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I get it, but it’s discrimination and someone is going to sue them for it.
michaelmrose@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
frog_brawler@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It is. There’s already cases pending in California challenging it. It violates both Unruh Civil Right and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. If male drivers are getting less customers because they are male, and those customers are instead being sent to female drivers; explain like I’m 5 how that’s not blatant discrimination based on gender?
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
“I’m entitled to make women who are victims of sexual assault remarkably uncomfortable and fearing for their safety! I demand compensation!”
frog_brawler@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
“I only want white drivers” - some racist.
It’s the same fucking thing.
starelfsc2@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
In this case the effect is so serious that you don’t really have a good option. It would be like if specifically Asian people were joining Uber trying to sexually assault men, I would probably do something to allow men to avoid Asians. It’s absolutely racist but at least I’m massively reducing the sexual assaults. The reason this doesn’t apply to race as much is almost every time something was blamed on race it was just a lie or completely misrepresented.
frog_brawler@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I understand the problem is real.
Discrimination is discrimination though.
Knightfox@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I don’t think it’s technically discrimination. Uber is a middle man business which pairs independent contractors with paying customers. If the customers or contractors have a preference then all it’s doing are matching those preferences.
More likely than not this will actually lead to those who use this option to have substandard service (either slower response or less available rides) than those who do not.
frog_brawler@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
So MAGA racists with a preference for a white driver… that’s totally ok, right?
Knightfox@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I mean, as a company whose business is pairing riders with drivers, it begs the questions why this isn’t already an option so long as drivers can also choose not to drive for people flagged as a certain way. If a MAGA person only wants white people driving for them then that will reduce the effectiveness of the app for them, provides service for someone who otherwise would be difficult as a customer, and it prevents them from harassing or bothering potential victims.
If I want to, as a driver or rider, I think I should be able to choose not to be driven by someone who has been flagged by others as overly visible. That might mean someone who won’t shut up about MAGA while I or they driver, it might be someone who has 15 bumper stickers about their beliefs, or it might be someone who has their car wrapped with Hatsune Miku. The consequence of this decision might mean that I have to wait an extra 15 min for a ride or it might mean that because of my actions people no longer wish to ride with me.
Yes, I think that’s a good idea.
Objection@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
So you disagree with the Civil Rights Act then? Because one of the things it did was force businesses to serve customers, regardless of things like race or sex. And before we had it, there where large parts of the South where black people would be refused service, and if someone did serve them, they’d lose a bunch of white customers.
That’s the very good reason why it’s “not already an option.”
Neither drivers nor Uber have the right, or should have the right, to refuse service based on categories protected in the Civil Rights Act.
HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
ugh… americans and their endless lawuits
rumba@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
It’s true, but we’re such assholes that we need lawsuits to keep us from devolving into apes.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Lawsuits are the only language that can reach a corporation.