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Liya Palagashvili - What Is The State Of The Gig Economy?

The Curious Task

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What Is Reclassification and What Are Your Criticisms?

Christian: Governments ultimately have a choice to either look at work forces and reclassify them. Or on the other hand, they can look into getting them access to the kinds of benefits or regulations that you were just describing. In the US, the biggest policy change was led in 2009 when California implemented what's called assembly bill five. It created a vastly stricter definition of what it meant to be an independent contractor. And as a result, by the way, which I'll talk about here in a second, it led to a lot of backlash, especially from the creative community of workers.

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