California passes bill that classifies gig economy workers as employees

Re:California passes bill that classifies gig economy worker... by swalsh on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @10:55AM (#20940820)

I'm just not convinced that's a straightforward question to answer. I once worked for a hardware company that outsourced new hardware development to a contractor. We had a guy in house for maintenance, and the occasional hardware bug that propped up, but we only designed a new box once every 5 years or so... it just didn't make sense to have the team in house. We did manufacturing in house, and we had a huge software team... but though our money came from selling the hardware, we didn't do that in house.

As the company grew much larger, we did eventually expand our product line, and did build a team. But for several years, we just had 1 dedicated hardware guy.

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Re:California passes bill that classifies gig economy worker... by wool_gather on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @11:20AM (#20941078)

Sure; there are always edge cases. Non-straightforward situations like this are exactly the reason judges exist, if it comes down to it.

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Re:California passes bill that classifies gig economy worker... by woah on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @12:29PM (#20941942)

What a huge drag on people’s livelihoods, making a broad swath of mutually beneficial business relationships illegal until someone goes through a multi year legal battle with the state.

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