California ends Uber, Lyft, declares the drivers to be subject to employer/employee laws and regulations

Say goodbye to all that

That was always the intent and the target of the state’s anti-gig law AB5, and the tens of thousands of jobs it killed in arts, music, nursing and free-lancing were just bonus collateral damage.

I have many friends who are self-employed, including some who drive for Uber and Lyft and not one of them wants to work under a boss and with fixed hours. That doesn’t matter, of course, because while they may not want the state, the state wants them.