[skyyler]

>I hope Lyft fires the driver.

They aren't employees, are they? Your verbiage seems off. I know not continuing to work with an independent contractor is very similar to firing an employee, but isn't it a little different?

[qup]

In the context of the comment and any reasonable conversation that's not about worker's rights, no.

They're exactly the same thing.

[skyyler]

I'm not so sure. Why do we call them different things if it's exactly the same?

[qup]

Because other contexts exist.

[yjftsjthsd-h]

I have no idea if there's a legal distinction, but I've heard of people firing contractors, and customers for that matter, so in the vernacular it seems fine.

[mint2]

Technically aren’t the passengers the employer?

It would be a terms of platform violation.