Labor/Employment
Mar. 25, 2020
Battle over gig work law intensifies as virus spreads
AB 5 author Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, D-San Diego, claims Uber’s CEO is proposing a “third category of employment for gig workers” that would effectively exempt Uber from federal and state labor laws like AB 5.
As Congress works to finalize a $2 trillion emergency coronavirus economic stimulus package, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi pushed an ongoing debate about California’s Assembly Bill 5 when he tweeted a letter addressed to President Donald Trump, asking that the provisions “include protections and benefits for independent workers.”
In her own letter posted several hours later Monday, AB 5 author Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, D-San Dieg...
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