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: 1) by khallow on Thursday May 03 2018, @12:04AM
Or you could get insurance that covers that. And universal health care turns threats for the individual into threats for the society. Government bankruptcy isn't usually an existential threat, but it's not something that goes away quickly either.
Which was a quite valid equivocation, let us note. Treatable health problems aren't the only source of existential threats for a person (the poster I replied to implied otherwise) and thus, it is foolish to assume that the existence of health care would remove all existential threats.
Ok, so what? Income inequality is a scam for dodging that absolute income has improved greatly and poverty gone down greatly.
Equivocation alert!
Because you are ignorant and need help.
And I can't overstate just how weak as your "worst shit" is. Oh dear, I defended the processes that have done the most over history (particularly, over recent history!) to elevation humans out of poverty and improve the human condition. I'm a Genghis Hitler for that!