Ridesharing apps have radically changed the way we get around on the ground. It’s not just that being able to order a car through an app at any time is useful, but historically I enjoyed Uber because I felt like they offered great customer service. Over the years, as...
A new California law threatens to upend Uber, but the Washington Post claimed the law doesn’t apply to the ride-hailing giant. This is convenient, since Post owner Jeff Bezos is not only a major Uber investor, but also founder and CEO of Amazon, which is likely to...
Today, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 5 into law which would limit the use of independent contracts. Newsom in a signed written statement said that the new law, “will help reduce worker misclassification — workers being wrongly classified as...
San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera could soon get far more power to hold Uber and Lyft to the letter of the law. The much-anticipated, highly controversial Assembly Bill 5, authored by Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego), is expected to be approved by...
SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – A San Diego lawmaker’s bill to limit when businesses and companies can classify employees as independent contractors was signed into law Wednesday by Gov. Gavin Newsom. In a signing statement, Newsom called AB 5, authored by Assemblywoman Lorena...
California appears to be on the verge of passing AB5, a bill that would make it much harder for companies to classify employees as “independent contractors”—and a bill that scares Uber and Lyft to death. Drivers from those companies wrote in to tell us how being a...
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan. (GeekWire Photo / Monica Nickelsburg) It’s been a rough month for ride-hailing companies, and Seattle is about to put another bump in the road. As Uber and Lyft grapple with new California regulations that could threaten their business...
It took the majority of a year for Alison Turkos to piece together the details of a night in 2017 that she ordered a Lyft to her home in Brooklyn. The ride from a birthday party at a Crown Heights bar to Turkos’s apartment a few neighborhoods over should have taken 15...
Kristin Michele and her girlfriend Jenn Mangan claim they were kicked out of an Uber car by a driver named Cynthia because the couple shared a kiss on the cheek while being driven to a Zac Brown Band concert in Camden, New Jersey on Friday (September 6). In a public...
It appears increasingly likely AB5, the California bill that would significantly narrow the definition of an independent contractor in the state and have potentially profound implications on the gig economy, will pass. Last weekend, Governor Gavin Newsom voiced his...
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