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Uber Italy charged under anti-mafia laws

wired.co.uk

45 pointstshanmu6 comments

> No criminal charges have been filed against Uber Italy, but if the judge finds against the managers accused of caporalato in the criminal case and FRC (accused of corporate liability) , the company could be ordered to pay damages as the civilly responsible party.

Whilst the current title ("Uber Italy charged under anti-mafia laws") is less click-baity than the Wired title, it isn't correct.

This is about a middleman who exploited migrants by positioning themselves between people who are desperate, and Uber.

> This is about a middleman who exploited migrants...

There are also allegations against a senior Uber manager:

> In May 2020, the Milan tribunal released an explosive 60-page court order laying out their findings. They alleged that a senior manager for Uber Italy, Gloria Bresciani, working in collaboration with Flash Road City managers – including Leonardo Moltini – and another intermediary company called FRC, had systematically exploited hundreds of delivery riders working for Uber Eats across multiple Italian cities.

Also:

> arbitrarily punished those who complained by locking them out of their accounts...

Couldn't this only have been done by someone who works for Uber?

> There are also allegations against a senior Uber manager

Uber Italy still hasn't been charged under anti-mafia laws. Which is the point I was attempting to make.

> Couldn't this only have been done by someone who works for Uber?

The accounts being used by FRC employees were set up by FRC, who could probably arbitrarily change passwords, log out of devices, and all that. The migrants weren't the ones creating their own accounts.

Wish they would apply this rule in England - caporalato is running via driver agencies such as "Driver Hire UK' (driverhire.co.uk) who contract workers under zero-hours rules and take a slice from the workers, with little obligation. the workers are somehow classed as employees under UK HMRC and are provided with an annual P60 document (employee document), yet have zero identity of being an employee - no sick pay, no vacation leave, no annual leave, no fixed hours, no contract, no set hourly or per job pay, no pension, no state pension, nothing which would normally make a holder of the P60 document exempt and protected from.

Very justified in this case.

And I don't normally support some of the more political cases against Uber et al

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