Why California’s Prop 22 matters for gig workers

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🗓️ 6 November 2020

⏱️ 9 minutes

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The controversial and expensive ballot measure --that ensures app-based drivers for Uber, Lyft, and Doordash are classified as independent contractors and not employees -- passed. Recode’s Shirin Ghaffary explains why this matters for labor groups and the gig industry in California and the rest of the country. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:41.0	California on Tuesday passed Proposition 22, which was a ballot measure that insured that app-based drivers for services like
0:44.8	Uber and Lyft are classified not as employees but as independent contractors.
0:50.2	Uber and Lyft threatened to leave the state had it not passed and it was the most expensive
0:54.9	ballot initiative in the history of California, $200 million.
0:58.7	To help explain Prop 22 and what this could mean for the future of labor laws is senior
1:03.4	RICO reporter Shringafari. Hey Shireen. Hey Teddy. Lots of labor groups
1:07.4	opposed Prop 22. Tell me why that is. Well they thought it was a cop out for the gig economy companies
1:15.4	like Uber and Lyft and DoorDash to not give employees some basic labor
1:20.9	protections so things like health care, you know, minimum wage,
1:26.0	all the things that you would expect a full-time employee
1:28.0	to kind of have.
1:29.3	Now, under this law, Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash
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