reports in the Los Angeles Times about the reaction — both favorable and unfavorable — to the Supreme Court’s unanimous April decision in Dynamex Operations West, Inc. v. Superior Court.
Some are unhappy with the opinion: “The business leaders are pushing to blunt the ruling’s impact, either through legislation or through executive action by the governor — moves that would reverberate across the national debate over the rights and roles of workers in the modern gig economy, and what Democrats’ posture toward tech companies should be.”
On the other hand: “Labor advocates say there’s no reason for California to water down workers’ rights. ‘These companies continue to have choices about their business model,’ union leaders from the state’s building trades, Teamsters union affiliates and AFL-CIO chapter told Brown and legislative leaders in a July letter reviewed by Bloomberg. ‘They can convert workers to employees and retain control over their work rules and their rates. Or they can contract with true independent contractors. The only thing they can’t do after Dynamex is have their cake and eat it too.'”
