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posted by martyb on Wednesday May 02 2018, @04:54PM   Printer-friendly
from the GIGantic-decision dept.

In a ruling with potentially sweeping consequences for the so-called gig economy, the California Supreme Court on Monday made it much more difficult for companies to classify workers as independent contractors rather than employees.

The decision could eventually require companies like Uber, many of which are based in California, to follow minimum-wage and overtime laws and to pay workers' compensation and unemployment insurance and payroll taxes, potentially upending their business models.

Industry executives have estimated that classifying drivers and other gig workers as employees tends to cost 20 to 30 percent more than classifying them as contractors. It also brings benefits that can offset these costs, though, like the ability to control schedules and the manner of work.

"It's a massive thing — definitely a game-changer that will force everyone to take a fresh look at the whole issue," said Richard Meneghello, a co-chairman of the gig-economy practice group at the management-side law firm Fisher Phillips.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/30/business/economy/gig-economy-ruling.html


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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 02 2018, @08:15PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 02 2018, @08:15PM (#674739)

    ...[the Capitalist Ownership Class will] go to the government and say "[...]make immigration easier"

    Our undamped pendulum of a Chief Executive, in his usual ignorant swinging-from-one-extreme-to-another mode recently pulled a move that will apparently put a chill on importing knowledgeable people.

    Immigrants on highly-skilled visas, as well as their [domestic] partners, are the targets of an under-the-radar effort to weed out foreign workers. [thinkprogress.org]

    A report [PDF] [netdna-ssl.com] released [April 24][1] by the Silicon Valley-backed immigration lobbying group FWD.us lays out the White House’s ongoing assault on immigration more broadly, as well as under-the-radar efforts targeting documented immigrants specifically. Founded by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Microsoft founder Bill Gates, the organization’s report argues that President Trump’s administration has made “immigration harder and more burdensome with the goal of reducing overall legal immigration.”

    Central to the analysis is the issue of H-1B visas, which are traditionally awarded to highly-skilled foreign workers, as well as H-4 visas, which allow their spouses to live in the United States with them.
    [...]
    "Rescinding [Obama's H-4 EAD provision] and removing tens of thousands of people from the American workforce would be devastating to their families and would hurt our economy", the report emphasizes.

    [1] I do wish that that site hadn't hired a nitwit who stripped from their pages all indications of publication dates. [google.com]

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