by dankeelan | Oct 20, 2020 | California, Diversity, Gig Workers
As Election Day nears, California voters are being bombarded with ads featuring smiling Black and brown faces championing Proposition 22, the initiative by Uber Technologies Inc., Lyft Inc. and other gig companies that seeks to exempt them from a state law requiring...
by dankeelan | Oct 20, 2020 | California, Featured, Future of Work, Gig Workers
A ballot measure would create a new legal classification for Uber drivers, Instacart shoppers, and DoorDash deliverers—not quite employees, but not the independent contractors they’ve been until now. Under Proposition 22, lavishly funded by the gig...
by dankeelan | Oct 12, 2020 | California, Featured, Future of Work, Gig Workers
Uber Technologies Inc and Lyft Inc together are spending nearly $100 million on a November California ballot initiative to overturn a state law that would compel them to classify drivers as employees. That sum looks less huge, however, than the potential costs of...
by dankeelan | Sep 29, 2020 | California, Featured, Gig Workers, Technology
The massively expensive campaign for a state proposition to let Uber, Instacart and other major tech companies keep treating their drivers as contractors rather than employees remains wide open as Election Day approaches, a poll released Wednesday found. The Berkeley...
by dankeelan | Sep 8, 2020 | California, Featured, Gig Workers, Journallism
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law Friday that exempts freelance journalists and a handful of other professions from a 2019 landmark labor law meant to protect gig workers. While the original law was meant to benefit workers, freelance...
by dankeelan | Sep 1, 2020 | California, Gig Workers
Musicians, translators, interpreters, writers, photographers and dozens more professions won exemptions from AB5, the state’s new gig-work law, with Monday’s passage of a cleanup bill, AB2257. People in those occupations now can continue to operate as self-employed...
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