Posted on 08/20/2021 7:06:52 PM PDT by BenLurkin
California’s giant ride-hailing and delivery companies suffered a major setback Friday as a state Superior Court judge invalidated a 2020 ballot proposition that allowed Uber, Lyft, DoorDash and other businesses to classify their workers as independent contractors.
In a lawsuit brought by the Service Employees International Union, Alameda County Superior Court Judge Frank Roesch ruled that parts of Proposition 22 are unconstitutional because they infringe on the power of the Legislature to include app-based drivers under the state’s workers’ compensation law.
Gig economy companies spent more than $220 million last year in the nation’s costliest-ever ballot initiative campaign after the California Legislature passed a law, AB 5, requiring drivers to be classified as employees with benefits such as minimum wage, overtime and workers’ compensation in case of injury.
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Californians have wasted so much money, time, and energy on ballot propositions that the courts eventually throw out well after they have been approved by the voters.
Yup...these are liberal luddites...must support the unions...no matter how incompetent or inefficient...progress and choice be damned
Wait, what? So this agenda-driven tool found a penumbra in the Kali Constipation that says there's no such thing as independent contractors???
If these liberals exercised that power,I wonder if that would help bring about a Gov Elder?
Yes. So I thought.
Is this gig or fig? I’m so confused.
Prop 187...Where after winning big, they burned the ballots and declared the election of the people, illegal.
Corrupt judges doing favors in exchange for public employee union campaign contributions. Standard Operating Procedure in California. The corruption runs deep. SEIU about owns the politicians in California.
Similar to how Amazon got away with murder by declaring itself a "poor widdle internet company" that shouldn't be expected to collect sales tax.
YouTube is littered with videos of how hard it is to make a living, or even make a profit, being an Uber/Lyft driver. The turnover is very high.
In the short run this might be bad for the consumer or the little guy trying to make a few bucks on the side, but in the long run if this makes even more people mad at Democrats then it will be a cloud with a silver lining.
Wow. The California Constitution says that the People, collectively, are the sovereign. The Legislature derives it’s power from the People. The portions of the constitution providing for referendum explicitly state that it is the People’s exercise of their sovereign power. Plainly wrongly decided. This will not stand
We have also voted against homosexual redefinition of marriage and against welfare for illegal aliens. In both instances we were told our votes were unconstitutional.
It’s a total farce.
Cab driver here and mixed feelings as well.
I am an independent contractor. I support independent contracting.
However there is nothing remotely resembling an even playing field between cabs and rideshare so called. A hundred percent unfair.
Also I am a conservative not a libertarian and I believe some regulation of an industry that utilizes public infrastructure to this extent and has a strong public trust where they pick up tourists, non English speaking, high, drunks, crazy, frail elderly etc needs some scrutiny.
Excellent point!
What a moronic ruling by a county judge. I’m sure this will be appealed.
The SEIU is evil. On the ladder of evil, it’s one rung above ISIS.
Exactly. Since Prop 13 the ballot initiative industry has become a force all of it’s own in Kalifornia.
In CA. these ballot initiatives ARE the only damn way to to slap these damn Marxists up side the head!! I a, telling EVERYONE here that election fraud has been going on in CA. for decades, illegals ARE VOTING in droves!!!
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