Commentary: Gig companies keep trying to evade the law
by Veena Dubal, Los Angeles Times
Aug 17, 2018
3 minutes
Gig companies such as Uber, DoorDash and Instacart portray themselves as brave and brilliant innovators, underdog entrepreneurs whose explosive growth simply reflects that they've built a better mousetrap. But the companies have been sued again and again, in the United States and around the globe, by workers who say these businesses prosper by violating their workers' basic legal rights.
That charge invites a question: Can gig companies survive without breaking the law? Apparently not, according to the companies themselves.
In April,
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