COVID EFFECT: Gig Economy Workers and Labor Legislation

What is happening? The policy battle over whether gig workers are employees or independent contractors is moving from California to Massachusetts. The State AG is suing to define the workers as employees and in November the question will be on the ballot.

Why is this important? COVID raised issues like who is an essential employee. Is the person who delivers your groceries during a pandemic an essential employee? But they also work on their own time schedule.

How will this be important? This is ongoing. The California ballot proposition passed but is in the courts with ongoing legal battles. Is the compromise in Washington state the model that should be emulated may be the new question.

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