Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“Drearily, an appeals court has dismissed Uber’s challenge to California’s anti-gig-work law. According to the 9th Circuit, the ride-sharing company couldn’t show that the California anti-freelancer law AB5, which took effect in 2020, unfairly targeted Uber while allowing other types of contract work to continue unhindered. In fact, the many exceptions to AB5 — determined by abundance or lack of political pull of various groups — mean that Uber is hardly alone in suffering from uneven application of the law. But suppose AB5 had in fact been evenly imposed on everybody. Suppose every single gig worker in California, without exception, had been forced to become a regular employee of all of his clients — with all the additional costs for employers that this entails — or else lose all work altogether. This would be worse, not better.” (06/18/24)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2024/06/18/leave-us-alone-to-do-our-work/