More creative ways to stop people from earning money from gig jobs…

[NeetaT]

I think it is a way to collect more taxes or at least make it easier to collect taxes. More people will be required to pay into the public disability insurance program giving the government more money to siphon off to the public pension fund.

[NeetaT]

I am calling out the 2 Republicans out of 17 Republicans in the General Assembly who voted yes for AB 5.

1.) Tyler Diep

2.) Brian Maienschein

[svelte]

I have not one ounce of sympathy for Uber and Lift.

They really snuck into the taxi industry through lies and deception. Does anybody remember when they claimed that they weren’t a taxi service but a “rideshare service”? My arse! The driver was NOT going to the location anyway, so there was no “rideshare” to it!

Taxis have to be registered in many locations, but Uber and Lyft skirted that also. To me, the situation was very unfair to taxis – not that I’m a big taxi fan.

So I turn a deaf ear to them.

I have also watched with some concern as a large number of jobs have turned to temp or contract work. Many places that employ professionals now do it through contracts, avoiding the need to pay benefits. I guess I’m OK with that for high paying jobs, say north of $100K a year, but with low paying jobs that are directly related to a business’s core product, I’m not OK with that. I am a little worried about the folks that just want to work part time…this will make businesses more likely to want full time employees only.

Does this law overreach? It appears to, though I haven’t read it word for word. Did something need to be done? I believe so.

Maybe adjustments will come to make it less draconian and more where I’d like.

[svelte]

[quote=barnaby33]

See what the average person doesn’t understand is the fvcktard Progressives are totally capitalizing on Fvxkface Trump to turn the Party of D in California into an extremely Fvcktard party going the other way

I’m not that into this new FLU. The old FLU saw 5 sides to every argument but was mostly non-committal. He was however mostly polite. The new FLU seems to be energized in a very partisan way.

Josh[/quote]

I noticed that the last few weeks too Josh.

Something has changed.

[PCinSD]

[quote=NeetaT]I am calling out the 2 Republicans out of 17 Republicans in the General Assembly who voted yes for AB 5.

1.) Tyler Diep

2.) Brian Maienschein[/quote]

Wasn’t Maienschein a Democrat when he voted?

[barnaby33]

The old FLU might have suggested something as tame as emailing your state representative to argue against so broad a bill. The old FLU might have even said it nicely or put up a link.
Josh

[FlyerInHi]

The very title of this thread is biased.

I didn’t really follow, but I think there are plenty of exemptions such as people making twice minimum wage.

I think Uber and other companies contributed $90 million to fight this in court and maybe sponsor a ballot initiative.

[spdrun]

Say this law is upheld in court. What’s to stop an app-hail company from CHARGING car owners a commission to match them with rides, with the final payment being handled between the car owner and customer (either via Square, Google/Apple Pay, or by good, old-fashioned cash)? At that point, the app-hail company would be operating as a true service, not as anything resembling an employer.

[FlyerInHi]

Uber now controls too much of the transaction. Sounds like an employee relationship to me where Uber is providing the service and deciding everything

The driver and rider should be able to negotiate the ride cost and not have Uber dictate. drivers and riders should be able to accept/select/decline each other. More like the Airbnb model.

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