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Not saying this ruling is correct, but what about Uber drivers makes them independent contractors? If all the drivers quit, Uber immediately has nothing to sell. When I think of IC's, I think of the IT guy, or the accountant. You call 'em when you need 'em, and if they can't do it, business continues until you find another one.
Yeah, the manufacturing plant I was at used independent contractors (hired through a contracting company) all the time for our maintenance down days
Each major machine got 1 electrician, 1 mechanic assigned to it essentially and employed by the company. When production would shut down for 16 hours once a month, we'd bring in an army of 50+ millwrights and pipefitters and 20-49 electricians with a planned list of jobs for all of them.
We were a paper making company, not a skilled trades company, which made sense that all those guys for 1 day a month were indeed CR Meyer or Faith contractors
This ruling sounds like it should have been phased in slowly though, to give businesses more time to indentify who would become full or part time employees and how to structure that pay/benefits the most similar to what they were making so that life could go on
Side related: Shouldn't laws governing how workers are classified be the job of legislation not the judicial? Or was there a law passed, someone fought it through the courts, and this was the result?
No more UFC California shows tho