The report comes as Prop. 22 heads to California’s appeals court.
Gig companies across the globe employ a similar playbook: Use gobs of venture capital to undercut legacy firms, skirt labor law to keep costs low, then use their resulting market dominance to pass new, more favorable laws. That’s how companies such as Uber and Lyft helped pass Proposition 22 in California, a 2020 ballot measure that cut gig workers out from a state law that would’ve classified many of them as employees...