Episode 37: AB5 Is About to Become Law: How Will That Change Our Businesses as Gig Contractors?

English - September 11, 2019 00:00 - 31 minutes - 21.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 16 ratings
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AB5 is almost certain to become law. The final vote in the California state senate is expected to pass before the week is over.

What will happen to the Gig Delivery industry and to contractors for Grubhub, Doordash, Postmates, Uber Eats and others in California? How will that affect our businesses? How will that impact us in other states? What will be the ripple affect?

We talk about this some in today's episode. Some of the topics we cover are: (with links to related articles at EntreCourier.com)

What IS AB5 and how does it apply to gig delivery work?
What are the drawbacks to AB5?
Why is AB5 Necessary despite the drawbacks?
What will this mean to California based contractors?
What is the ripple effect for those of us not in California?
What should we do as a result of its likely passage?

Every week we post a companion blog post that serves as a semi-transcript of the episode. There's so much to talk about with AB5, it was hard keeping the podcast at a reasonable length, but this week we decided to go into a bit more depth on the website. So instead of a single post, we published a series of articles. You can find the 'home page' for that article series here.