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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
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday May 02 2018, @08:38PM (1 child)
He doesn't seem the type to do that. He and people like him have...not honor, exactly, but like most people with no actual morals they have some fairly exacting standards, and one of his seems to be "cause all my trouble directly." If you ask why he'd probably phrase it something closer to "I don't need to abuse admin powers to trigger them as needs triggerin' snowflake," but when you get right down to it, that's all it is. He's kind of like an evil version of Pratchett's idea of what a witch is, something like a photo-negative Nanny Ogg.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 02 2018, @11:01PM
Yeah I know, but I like to give him shit since that is 90% of what he does to everyone else. I was 100% trolling, but of course that is one time where he doesn't accuse me of it. I guess he only accuses legitimate observations of trolling so that he can mentally detach from having to seriously consider the words.