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mutinyytoday at 2:28 PM0 repliesview on HN

We don't need to ask at what level are clients responsible for contractors health, wellbeing, and (most importantly, which you missed) negligent actions. These are all well established law. What needs discussion is if we should plug the loopholes Amazon uses to treat these independent contractors as employees while avoiding exposing their deep pockets to lawsuits. Either they treat them like contractors or they assume responsibility for their actions, but you can't have it both ways.