That is not obvious to me at all. If they feel empowered to do that, they could, in theory, play it very tightly to short term demand and toggle people's "worki

That is not obvious to me at all. If they feel empowered to do that, they could, in theory, play it very tightly to short term demand and toggle people's "working status" and dodge this new law entirely. We don't want people idling around with apps that try to log in to uber every 10 seconds rather than people idling around logged in waiting for uber to send them a job. It's the same problem as before. This law is effectively saying uber must pay people for asking if uber has any work to do, in addition to doing it. And maybe we're just saying no to the gig model. Sure, I'm for it. But this indirect approach is going to be an awkward way to get there imo.