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July 21, 2021
News & Commentary

Mackenzie Bouverat

Today’s headline is that Jeff Bezos visited space. Of the $5.5 million dollar expenditure, he commented the following: “[I] want to thank every Amazon employee and every Amazon customer because you guys paid for all this. So seriously, for every Amazon customer out there, and every Amazon employee, thank you from the bottom of my […]

September 21, 2020
News & Commentary

Randon Herrera

The US Labor Department is preparing to release a new federal framework for worker classification. As Bloomberg reports, DOL received approval from the White House regulatory office to publish the proposed rule in the Federal Registrar for public comment. The rule will be aimed at providing employers with a framework for determining whether their workers […]

February 9, 2020
News & Commentary

Jared Odessky

Yesterday John Myers at the Los Angeles Times profiled Lorena Gonzalez, the tenacious California assembly member behind AB5. The profile follows an almost-certain court victory for the pioneering law, which is aimed at curbing misclassification of workers in the gig economy. On Friday, Uber and Postmates urged a federal judge to issue a preliminary injunction […]

January 5, 2020
News & Commentary

Annie Hollister

California’s controversial AB5 law came into effect on January 1, to fierce opposition from industry. The law codifies the California Supreme Court’s Dynamex test for classifying workers as employees, rather than independent contractors. Last week, Uber and Postmates filed a suit to challenge the law, arguing that the state legislature’s decision to exempt certain industries […]

November 22, 2019
News & Commentary

Sejal Singh

This year, construction workers Bright Power formed one of the first ever unions to at a solar power company. But on Monday, the company fire the entire construction crew — in the middle of bargaining their first contract — and instead announced that they would be replaced by subcontractors. Unionized workers told Vice reporter Lauren Gurley […]

July 21, 2019
News & Commentary

Deanna Krokos

Last week, Postmates CEO Bastian Lehmann authored an op-ed for CNN arguing for a hybrid-method to “empower gig workers” without undermining the purported “flexibility” that many gig companies tout as justification for gig workers’ exemption from traditional labor protections. The op-ed comes in the middle of an ongoing debate in the California legislature over AB5, […]

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