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Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 55611245 United States 08/13/2020 08:07 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | "California’s anti-freelancing law, AB5, was aimed primarily at forcing companies like Uber and Lyft to classify their drivers as employees and guarantee “minimum wage” and employee benefits at the expense of flexibility and autonomy. When the law went into effect on January 1, 2020, Uber and Lyft’s business models continued essentially without a hitch while hundreds of thousands of other professionals who’d worked as independent contractors – speech therapists, translators, respiratory therapists, writers, photographers, bartenders, musicians, and many more – were immediately negatively impacted, some losing their incomes entirely." |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 18972958 United States 08/13/2020 08:28 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Ride-sharing apps could work around the laws exemptions. For instance, I am an independent contractor and unaffected because I provide a service to the client that is not the client's primary business, and make more than double the minimum wage. If Lyft and Uber portray their primary business as providing logistics and apps to the ride sharing drivers, they may find a workaround. Or, they could let the drivers set their own prices and take a cut. The nice thing about letting drivers set their own prices is that it would incite a "race-to-the-bottom" mentality where drivers would try to undercut each other. This would drive pricing down and the drivers' earnings as well. The positive thing being... lowering the drivers' earnings would be opposite of what AB5 was trying to enforce, thus sticking it to the lawmakers and showing them that more laws equals more unintended consequences. And so on. . |
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CountryWise User ID: 77686894 United States 08/13/2020 08:50 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | He is an ex USDOJ senior official under Obama admin. said he was 3rd charge or something. Like two levels under AG. I posted about it in the Uber thread about 2 days ago. |
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