California passes bill that classifies gig economy workers as employees

Re:California passes bill that classifies gig economy worker... by mercutio2 on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @10:09AM (#20940382)

These (incredibly small) requirements you list for having a small number of part time employees have been legal obligations for more than 50 years.

So yes, you have to fill out 5 forms, and write 4 checks, every year for withheld taxes.

But none of this qualifies for “it’s sad, it’s getting hard to be a small business”. They’re just things everyone in the US has been legally obligated to do for part time employees for an exceedingly long time.

So I don’t get the tone of this thread.

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Re:California passes bill that classifies gig economy worker... by CodeCube on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @10:53AM (#20940801)

People with business degrees get a ton of crap in tech circles (god knows I've sent my share of snark their way over the years ;) ) ... but at the end of the day, there is value to someone learning those things, and people have been successfully thriving for decades as you mention under the exact same obligations. I think tech generally seeks to reduce friction as much as possible, even to its detriment ... like someone removing some log from a worksite while cleaning up, only to realize it was holding up something else. The original intent of the thing is lost over time

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Re:California passes bill that classifies gig economy worker... by titanomachy on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @11:39AM (#20941304)

I could be wrong, but I don't think my friends who got business degrees were learning how to fill out W-4s. They were learning things like "strategy" and "organisational behaviour" and apparently doing presentations every other week.

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