California’s AB5 has made for the kind of articles media outlets dream about.
As it’s been litigated over the past couple of years, we’ve seen unions jostle with lobbyists, spirited protests slow commerce (see last month’s blockade at the Port of Oakland) and a larger ideological showdown that pits ideals of workers’ rights against the flexible labor that gig economy proponents say is a feature, not a bug.
Amid the rancor, a lot of uncertainty still surrounds AB5: uncertainty about what it means...
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