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1. Independent contractor status lets platform firms avoid minimum-wage guarantees and employer contributions while still controlling workers through the algorithm.
2. Courts in several jurisdictions have begun to notice this contradiction, since behavioural control, not the label on a contract, has traditionally been the legal test for employment.
3. That control includes real-time monitoring of location and speed, along with automated penalties for declining jobs.
4. Such monitoring sits uneasily beside the platforms' simultaneous claim that these workers are free, independent entrepreneurs.
2. Courts in several jurisdictions have begun to notice this contradiction, since behavioural control, not the label on a contract, has traditionally been the legal test for employment.
3. That control includes real-time monitoring of location and speed, along with automated penalties for declining jobs.
4. Such monitoring sits uneasily beside the platforms' simultaneous claim that these workers are free, independent entrepreneurs.
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Answer: 1342
Sentence 1 introduces the core claim about contractor status enabling both cost avoidance and algorithmic control. Sentence 3 specifies what that control ('That control') consists of. Sentence 4 draws out the tension between this specified control and the platforms' 'independent entrepreneur' framing. Sentence 2 then concludes with courts noticing 'this contradiction' — referring back to the tension just established. Order: 1342.
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