Episode 254
How Proposition 22 is shaping the gig economy
Last year’s Proposition 22 allowed companies that dispatch app-based workers to continue considering them independent contractors, while adding some limited worker benefits. Veena Dubal, a professor of law at UC Hastings who conducts ethnographic and legal research on the gig economy, relays workers’ experiences and examines how the measure might be laying the groundwork for other industries to shift toward gig work.
Civic · Mel Baker, Laura Wenus
February 9, 202132m 41s
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Show Notes
Last year’s Proposition 22 allowed companies that dispatch app-based workers to continue considering them independent contractors, while adding some limited worker benefits. Veena Dubal, a professor of law at UC Hastings who conducts ethnographic and legal research on the gig economy, relays workers’ experiences and examines how the measure might be laying the groundwork for other industries to shift toward gig work.
Topics
incomeprop 22laboruc hastingsgig economylabor lawdrivergig workers