California has rejected a major gig economy reform, leaving workers without employee protections

Proposition 22, created to decide the future of the California gig economy, has passed.

The proposition concerned whether app-based drivers for companies like Uber and Lyft are employees or independent contractors. And its success, which the Associated Press called before midnight Wednesday PT, means those companies will effectively be exempted from a California law that would have pushed such drivers to be classified as employees.

The decision is a major win for gig companies”

https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/11/4/21539335/california-proposition-22-results-gig-economy-workers

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