Uber, Lyft Drivers Could Become Employees Under Proposed CA Law
Business Wars Daily
Wondery
4.6 • 716 Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2019
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Today is Tuesday, June 25, and we’re looking at Uber vs. Lyft.
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| 1:11.0 | Rivals Uber and Lyft are teaming up to fight a common enemy. |
| 1:14.8 | The state of California may soon require ride-sharing companies to reclassify their drivers as employees, not contract workers. |
| 1:23.1 | And Uber and Lyft don't want any part of that. |
| 1:27.2 | At issue is a law passed by the State Assembly in |
| 1:29.6 | late May called AB5. The bill would reclassify all kinds of gig workers as employees, |
| 1:36.4 | giving them labor protections like unemployment insurance, paid parental leave, overtime pay, |
| 1:41.3 | workers' comp, and a minimum wage of $12 an hour. But AB5 is not law yet. |
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