Here's something for you guys to ponder.
One of the outcomes of the 2016 out of court settlement in which Fat Freddy dumped $650 million bucks on the table in order to settle contractor claims to that point in time was that it served as his own little but expensive "get out of jail free card".
However he was able to walk away without having to admit any liability but the really important outcome was no outcome regarding the question of whether contractors were contractors or employees. To my knowledge that question has never been settled. If so, when Ground is dissolved that question will still remain unsettled.
Now when this so called "restructuring" which is in reality is much closer to a collapse contractors are going to be burdened with an even more disproportionate share of the burden of sustaining and preserving the interests and well being of the company.
The result will be the control freaks having full complete and uncontested control over contractors with the miniscule amount of freedom and autonomy contractors having gone among the missing as a result of finding themselves even more beholding to Fat Freddy.
Now human nature being what it is a person or in this case persons are only going to tolerate being cuffed around and slapped around by some arrogant little dastard ( can't use the b word here) to a limited extent and for a limited amount of time until people fight back.
Not going to happen today and it's not going to happen tomorrow but it will happen when contractors backed into a corner come out fighting with everything they've got at their disposal. And if the question of contractor or employee has never been formally settled , that could be to their benefit when they've finally had enough.
One of the outcomes of the 2016 out of court settlement in which Fat Freddy dumped $650 million bucks on the table in order to settle contractor claims to that point in time was that it served as his own little but expensive "get out of jail free card".
However he was able to walk away without having to admit any liability but the really important outcome was no outcome regarding the question of whether contractors were contractors or employees. To my knowledge that question has never been settled. If so, when Ground is dissolved that question will still remain unsettled.
Now when this so called "restructuring" which is in reality is much closer to a collapse contractors are going to be burdened with an even more disproportionate share of the burden of sustaining and preserving the interests and well being of the company.
The result will be the control freaks having full complete and uncontested control over contractors with the miniscule amount of freedom and autonomy contractors having gone among the missing as a result of finding themselves even more beholding to Fat Freddy.
Now human nature being what it is a person or in this case persons are only going to tolerate being cuffed around and slapped around by some arrogant little dastard ( can't use the b word here) to a limited extent and for a limited amount of time until people fight back.
Not going to happen today and it's not going to happen tomorrow but it will happen when contractors backed into a corner come out fighting with everything they've got at their disposal. And if the question of contractor or employee has never been formally settled , that could be to their benefit when they've finally had enough.