{"id":1016,"date":"2018-04-30T21:51:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T21:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2018\/04\/30\/regulatory-trend-reclassifying-ride-share-companies-as-not-solely-ride-share\/"},"modified":"2018-04-30T21:51:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-30T21:51:00","slug":"regulatory-trend-reclassifying-ride-share-companies-as-not-solely-ride-share","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/regulatory-trend-reclassifying-ride-share-companies-as-not-solely-ride-share\/","title":{"rendered":"Regulatory TREND. Reclassifying Ride Share Companies as not solely Ride Share"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Regulator:<\/strong>\u00a0California\u00a0Public Utilities Commission<\/p>\n<p><strong>What did the California Public Utilities Commission do?<\/strong>\u00a0Reclassified Uber, because of Uber SUV and Uber Black, as\u00a0partially as a charter party carrier (that&#8217;s how California regulates limos and party charters)<\/p>\n<p><strong>How was the company operating in California?<\/strong> \u00a0Mostly through a subsidiary,\u00a0Rasier-CA, which the administrative law fact finder to be\u00a0\u00a0&#8221;\u00a0\u201ca mere instrumentality\u201d of Uber<\/p>\n<p><strong>Appeals forthcoming?<\/strong>\u00a0Yes<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rational of the fact finder:<\/strong>\u00a0The company could change its stucture and avoid the cost of the reclassification<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfexaminer.com\/state-regulator-ruling-cost-uber-millions\/\">San Francisco Examiner |\u00a0State regulator ruling could cost Uber \u2018millions\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Regulator:<\/strong>\u00a0California\u00a0Public Utilities Commission<\/p>\n<p><strong>What did the California Public Utilities Commission do?<\/strong>\u00a0Reclassified Uber, because of Uber SUV and Uber Black, as\u00a0partially as a charter party carrier (that&#8217;s how California regulates limos and party charters)<\/p>\n<p><strong>How was the company operating in California?<\/strong> \u00a0Mostly through a subsidiary,\u00a0Rasier-CA, which the administrative law fact finder to be\u00a0\u00a0&#8221;\u00a0\u201ca mere instrumentality\u201d of Uber<\/p>\n<p><strong>Appeals forthcoming?<\/strong>\u00a0Yes<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rational of the fact finder:<\/strong>\u00a0The company\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,51,26,7,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-issue","category-2019-issue","category-regulatory-trend","category-ride-share","category-sharing-economy","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}