Truckers sue California, say new gig economy law would kill 70k jobs
1–10 of 120 posts
Re: Truckers sue California, say new gig economy law would kill 70k jobs
#2Pretty comical that it ended up being California regulation that would put truckers out of work instead of Silicon Valley automation.
Re: Truckers sue California, say new gig economy law would kill 70k jobs
#3Well, now we know what Yang will be talking about in the debate next week.
Re: Truckers sue California, say new gig economy law would kill 70k jobs
#4This element of the law is an odd standard:
> performing work "outside the usual course of the hiring entity's business
That bans subcontracting, no? It's a common, long established practice in a lot of industries.
Re: Truckers sue California, say new gig economy law would kill 70k jobs
#5Used Roadie to ship some furniture this year to few customers. Much easier than dealing with LTL carriers and the customers liked it much more. Be interesting if they can stay around..
Re: Truckers sue California, say new gig economy law would kill 70k jobs
#6This element of the law is an odd standard: > performing work "outside the usual course of the hiring entity's business That bans subcontracting, no? It's a common, long established practice in a lot of industries.
It doesn't ban anything, it just says that certain types of people working in certain arrangements can't be deprived of employment benefits.
Re: Truckers sue California, say new gig economy law would kill 70k jobs
#7This element of the law is an odd standard: > performing work "outside the usual course of the hiring entity's business That bans subcontracting, no? It's a common, long established practice in a lot of industries.
It doesn't ban anything, it just says that certain types of people working in certain arrangements can't be deprived of employment benefits.
Yes, but unfortunately the mandated benefits were created by the comically ham-fisted California legislature.
Re: Truckers sue California, say new gig economy law would kill 70k jobs
#8Well, now we know what Yang will be talking about in the debate next week.
Yang is basically a foot note in history at this point.
Re: Truckers sue California, say new gig economy law would kill 70k jobs
#9Pretty comical that it ended up being California regulation that would put truckers out of work instead of Silicon Valley automation.
I mean, if I had to lay bets, I'd give astronomically better odds of California passing a dumb, counterproductive law than a difficult technological innovation.
Re: Truckers sue California, say new gig economy law would kill 70k jobs
#10The loads hauled by these truckers aren't going to magically vanish because the employment laws have changed, which would strongly suggest there will be about the same number of jobs in the end, since the same amount of work still needs to be done.
> Many would have to abandon $150,000 investments in clean trucks
I read this as: truckers will no longer be expect to supply their own $150,000 trucks to get into the business.
> and the right to set their own schedules
I read this as: truckers will no longer be expected to "comply with the laws, wink wink" to meet impossible schedules in ways that legally aren't the contracting company's fault.