Law Practice
Feb. 20, 2015
The law of work in the sharing economy
Policymakers and firms should establish a legal baseline of worker protections that rises as a worker approaches full-time engagement with a particular platform, as some commentators have suggested.
Michael A. Troncoso
Managing Counsel
UC Office of General Counsel
From 2011 to 2013, Michael served as chief counsel and chief of public policy in the California attorney general's office. Views expressed here are his alone. He is UC's cybersecurity counsel.
Angry drivers have issued a remarkable legal battle cry against Uber and Lyft. Their claim is deceptively simple: The platforms' drivers have been misclassified as mere "contractors," when they are truly "employees." What is remarkable here is less the drivers' theory of liability - employee misclassification is well-trampled legal ground - than the profound disruption in the labor market underlying their claims. The drivers, in some sense, are pushing back against the rapid mutation of ...
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