In a landmark move aiming to combat worker misclassification, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law Wednesday that will potentially give independently contracted local workers such as Postmates and Lyft drivers the same rights as full-time employees of the companies for which they work.
"The hollowing out of our middle class has been 40 years in the making, and the need to create lasting economic security for our workforce demands action," Newsom wrote in a statement released to
What are the employment tax consequences of this? Is this going to be a big mess?
And just like that, small businesses left California.
Wow, if AB 5 is going to ruin small and startup businesses, what will AB84 do?
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