September 6, 2019
SLS Blogs
Workers in the gig economy in California may be getting extra labor protections if Assembly Bill 5, which could upend the definition of contract employees, is taken up by the California Senate by the time it adjourns on September 13, as is expected. The bill cleared the fiscal committee in the state senate on August 30. Here, labor law expert Stanford Law Professor William B. Gould IV discusses the bill and objections to it by Lyft and Uber.
https://law.stanford.edu/2019/09/06/stanford-laws-bill-gould-on-assembly-bill-5-labor-rights-in-the-gig-economy/