Postmortem on TNC reactions to AB 5

What is AB 5? The California legislation that reclassifies gig economy workers as employees

What are the arm chair quarter backs saying about transportation network Companies response to the passage of the bill?

• Uber shouldn’t have taken the blanket position that drivers are not employees because there business isn’t driving, its technology platform
• it is the result of the hard-driving startup culture that enabled this position
• TNC’s can’t expect to repeatedly cut driver compensation and think people will be silent

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