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Blow for Uber as judge finds California’s gig-worker law unconstitutional – Uber

• hoppyhoppy2 5y ago
  See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28253110 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28253110
• gentleman11 5y ago
  > Uber and Lyft threatened to leave the state if voters rejected the measure. Let them. Who cares, what a self important tantrum
  • carlosdp 5y ago
    To be fair, I think a lot of people would actually care if they actually did shut down in the state...
    • eh9 5y ago
      It’s not 2015. You can summon cabs with apps now, and they usually have better employee practices, so I don’t think people would care too much.
• scottydelta 5y ago
  Gig companies' coalition spent over $200 millions to manipulate public into voting Prop 22 into a law against their own-self interest.
• France_is_bacon 5y ago
  The thing that I personally have against the gig worker law is that if I, myself, want to be an independent contractor, I am not allowed to be one. Other people are upset about it as well. Fluck everything about that. Why can't I just sign a document that I WANT to be self-employed, that I am a full-grown adult and can make my own decisions? I think that the reason that the state mandates me, and other small business owners, is because instead of having to tax 500,000 individual business owners, the state government only has to collect my taxes from only one company, so it makes it easier for the state.