One thing that has really stood out to me is that we need to clamp down on companies outsourcing risk and cost by declaring what are actually employees as “independent contractors”, including Uber and Lyft.

Story time: my car was hit by a bike delivery guy. Not my fault, and the bicyclist was thankfully ok. When we called the company he worked for, their response was basically “he’s an independent contractor, not our problem”.

Really? An “independent” contractor working how many hours a week with a company branded bike? Managed by the company? At this point companies are just blatantly dodging employment law, and that needs to stop.