Name: How Uber, Lyft and Others Could Be Upended By California's New Law | WSJ
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for both Uber, Lyft, Postmates, DoorDash,

and a lot of companies in the sharing economy space.

- It almost seems to me like they're digging

that is, in and of itself, never going to work.

is just sucking the revenue out of you and leaves you

to deal with all the rest of it by yourself.

- This notion of, "I wanna be paid really high salaries,

- [Narrator] The gig economy, the sharing economy,

the future of work, whatever you call it,

contract work may be changing, for both the workers

a law that could completely abandon the gig economy

by reclassifying many independent contractors as employees,

a huge step towards a new labor model across the country.

Hundreds of thousands of contract workers

in California are set to become employees,

threatening the business models of ride-hailing companies

like Uber and Lyft, and a host of other companies.

at the University of California, Hastings

things were okay, but over the last five years,

and they unilaterally decide that drivers are gonna

make even less of the fare that they were before.

- [Narrator] Under the new law, drivers could be entitled

will those benefits come at the cost of flexibility?

Will part-time jobbers be forced to become employees

they could lose flexibility as an employee,

others like Edan Alva welcome the protections.

Alva moved to the U.S. from Israel almost 20 years ago

and worked as a corporate security manager in the Bay Area.

He started driving for Lyft part time 4 1/2 years ago

to make a little extra money on his long commute.

Then he lost his job and was forced to start driving

full time to support himself and his son.

He currently drives for Lyft and Zum, a rideshare

specifically to take children to and from school.

of what they were when I started four years ago.

Every day feels like a Russian roulette, (chuckles)

because the chances of something happening,

maybe something small and annoying, like another flat tire,

maybe something bigger like a car accident,

maybe something devastating like getting injured,

in a way that I cannot work, it's all there.

And if that happens, I have no safety network!

- [Narrator] AB5 will require companies that want to treat

a worker as a contractor to prove three things,

that the worker isn't controlled by the company,

that the work isn't part of the company's core business,

and that the worker has their own independent enterprise.

Uber and Lyft told us this could force them

and significantly reduce the amount of drivers they employ.

specific shifts, stick to specific areas,

arguing that drivers are not part of their core business.

and consultant for Uber who helped the company

and other ride-hailing rules in New York.

- When I was investing in and working with Uber

back in the early days, it was envisioned

in their spare time to make a few extra bucks,

There are a subset of drivers in some really big cities

where it very much is their full-time job,

and so it's problematic 'cause it's expensive,

- [Narrator] The two companies say they have more

than half a million combined drivers in California,

They say that drivers take home more than 70% of fares,

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