Two weeks ago, California legislators passed a bill that requires Lyft, Uber, and other similar service platforms to treat the workers that provide services through them as employees rather than independent contractors. Other states are likely to follow suit.
What California’s New Gig Work Law Gets Wrong About Gig Work
And what we need instead.
September 27, 2019
Summary.
Two weeks ago, California legislators passed a bill that requires Lyft, Uber, and other similar service platforms to treat the workers that provide services through them as employees rather than independent contractors. Other states are likely to follow suit. However, asking and adjudicating whether such “gig” workers are employees or contractors is missing the broader issue: They may be neither. Instead, it just highlights the inadequacy of the traditional binary classification of workers in today’s gig economy.