{"id":176457,"date":"2020-06-11T18:31:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T23:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/06\/11\/bummer-of-a-birthmark-uber\/"},"modified":"2020-06-11T18:31:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T23:31:00","slug":"bummer-of-a-birthmark-uber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/06\/11\/bummer-of-a-birthmark-uber\/","title":{"rendered":"Bummer of a Birthmark, Uber"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/hd41K.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/hd41K.jpg\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a>The California <abbr title=\"Public Utilities Commission\">PUC<\/abbr> has just made it official, ruling that <a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/hd41K.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2020\/06\/10\/californian_regulator_rideshare\/\">the drivers for Uber and Lyft are employees, not independent contractors<\/a>.<\/div>\n<p>I guess that the &#8220;Ride Sharing&#8221; companies are going to have to find a new way to f%$# over their drivers to justify the obscene money that they pay their senior executives.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, the humanity.<\/p>\n<p>Think of the venture capitalists!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The California Public Utilities Commission, which regulates private transport companies including Uber and Lyft, has ruled that the two upstarts&#8217; drivers should be recognized as employees instead of contractors. <\/p>\n<p>The issue over the status of drivers for ride-hailing companies has been controversial for a while. Cali Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 5, known as AB5, that classifies gig economy workers, such as Uber and Lyft drivers, as employees in the US state. <\/p>\n<p>The law came into force in January this year, though Uber and Lyft have resisted the change. Both companies were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2020\/05\/05\/uber_lyft_sued\/\">sued<\/a> by the state\u2019s Attorney General Xavier Becerra last month for failing to recognize its drivers as employees. Now, the California Public Utilities Commission has weighed in.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>About f%$#ing time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The California PUC has just made it official, ruling that the drivers for Uber and Lyft are employees, not independent contractors. I guess that the &#8220;Ride Sharing&#8221; companies are going to have to find a new way to f%$# over their drivers to justify the obscene money that they pay their senior executives. Oh, the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[465,437,471],"class_list":["post-176457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-labor","tag-regulation","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176457"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}