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Newsom Signs Bill to Unionize California’s 800,000 Rideshare Gig Workers: This Was the Plan All Along

October 4, 2025 8:50 amOctober 6, 2025 11:33 am

Governor Gavin Newsom Friday signed Assembly Bill 1340 by Democrat Assembly members Buffy Wicks and Marc Berman into law, “marking a historic milestone for California’s gig economy and the hundreds of thousands of drivers who power it,” Wicks and Berman...

California’s Rideshare Gig Workers: Unionization Was the Plan All Along

August 29, 2025 12:09 pmAugust 29, 2025 12:12 pm

California Governor Newsom, the Senate and Assembly “deliver landmark solutions in partnership with SEIU, Uber and Lyft that will provide a pathway to unionization for more than 800,000 workers and bring down the cost of rideshare services,” Democrats announced Friday....

California’s Draconian AB 5 Continues to Decimate the Careers of Independent Professionals

December 31, 2024 7:17 amDecember 31, 2024 10:54 am

As California’s onerous AB 5 law enters its fifth year of chaos, independent professionals in the (once) Golden State continue to experience disruption and/or decimation of their careers across hundreds of industries and professions, thanks to the freelance-busting policy authored...

California Supreme Court Ends Legal Snafu Over Gig Drivers – Upholds Prop. 22

July 26, 2024 10:53 amJuly 26, 2024 10:55 am

In November 2020, California voters overwhelmingly passed Proposition 22, to exempt all rideshare drivers from being classified as employees. But labor unions and some drivers sued to halt the proposition. Thursday, California’s Supreme Court upheld Proposition 22, allowing drivers at Uber,...

Federal Rule Barring Non-Compete Narrows Gap Between California and Rest of U.S.

May 14, 2024 2:55 amMay 13, 2024 3:55 pm

California employers have contended with the state’s prohibition on post-termination non-compete agreements for more than 150 years, and they may now have a thing or two to teach the rest of the country. The Federal Trade Commission adopted a rule...

Gutless Amenders in California’s Legislature

March 28, 2024 11:14 amMarch 28, 2024 11:14 am

In 2019, the California Legislature passed and Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill called AB 5, a dream of big labor’s but a nightmare for freelance/contract workers. In 2020, Newsom signed AB 2257, lifting some requirements for some of the...

The New Fed Contractor Rule is Great! …But Doesn’t Go Far Enough, Says the LA Times

March 18, 2024 2:50 pmMarch 18, 2024 2:50 pm

Sometimes alternate realities are fun. A good movie, an engrossing sci-fi book, thinking ever so briefly what you will do with all that money when the lottery ticket you just bought wins. Harmless escapism and, to be blunt, something...