The way the ruling is worded it really can’t stand, at all, if they want to keep these businesses anything other than co-ops.
I don’t see this as anything new. As a contractor for four decades I saw this all the time. I always had actual employees but many called their people independent contractors. It is legal if they simply get their own Federal ID Number and a basic liability policy.
If they don’t do that the employer can be hit with some massive fines and will need to pay back taxes for up to seven years. That means SS, FICA, state, unemployment and Work Comp.
The independent contractors probably don’t need work comp. Here in Minnesota, as an owner, I don’t need work comp for me or any family employees.