Gig Work With Benefits: California May Expand Employee Perks To Contract Workers
California lawmakers are expected to approve a proposal to reclassify Uber drivers and other contract workers in the state as employees, giving them more rights and benefits at employers' expense.
Who should qualify for minimum wage protections, sick leave or any of the other benefits typically given employees?
California's state legislature is reopening that high-stakes, decades-long debate, as it prepares to vote on a proposal that would give hundreds of thousands of contract workers, such as Uber and Lyft drivers, new benefits by legally reclassifying them as employees.
If it passes, the state's narrower definition of "contractor" would trigger a host of other changes for companies that would then
