Business & Tech Appeals Court Upholds Prop. 22 Gig Worker Law, But It’s Still Likely Headed To State Supreme Court A big win for Uber and Lyft to not treat their drivers as employees, as a state appeals court has upheld the Prop. 22 law exempting rideshare companies from minimum wage and overtime rules, but this thing’s expected to go to the state Supreme Court.
Business & Tech Gig Workers Uniquely Vulnerable to Coronavirus, No Employee Protections in Place Many on-demand delivery companies are cleaning up as the shut-in economy surges, but the rideshare industry is taking a hit, and gig workers are forced to put in extra work under high-risk conditions.
Business & Tech Uber and Postmates Join Forces To Seek Injunction In Gig-Worker Law AB-5 The two local app-based companies that rely on contract drivers are challenging a new California law that is set to go into effect on January 1, and which poses an existential threat to the so-called "gig economy."
Business & Tech ‘Gig Worker’ Wage And Benefits Bill Passes Both Chambers Of Legislature, Likely To Become Law The gig may be up for the so-called unicorn startups who’ve coasted on crazy cheap labor, as California is poised to become the first state in the nation to make companies classify independent contractors as employees.
Business & Tech Uber Driver Caravan Descends On Company HQ, Joined By Pete Buttigieg That convoy of Uber and Lyft drivers that drove up from Southern California to stage a demonstration in Sacramento on Wednesday made their way, predictably, to protest outside Uber's SF headquarters on Tuesday.
SF News IKEA Is Buying SF-Based TaskRabbit Lest IKEA customers spend precious weekends and vacation days assembling inexpensive furniture based on wordless instructions, the company has announced it will buy San Francisco-based on-demand task-doer service TaskRabbit, i.e. the Uber
SF News Tragic Ads Attempt To Glorify Desperate Hell Of Gig Economy The "gig economy" is literally killing us.Most depressing ad of the day goes to: @fiverr 🙃 pic.twitter.com/xq0sxsL55t— it's B! Cavello ✊️ (@b_cavello) March 9, 2017 Hustlers and freelancers in the
SF News Instacart's Independent Contractors Score Big Win After Threatening Strike Instacart's "shoppers," a.k.a. independent contractors, forced the grocery-delivery startup to back down on a proposed major change to worker compensation in the face of a planned strike. In a blog post
