{"id":1274,"date":"2019-05-16T03:58:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T03:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2019\/05\/16\/regulatory-trend-employment-status-of-tnc-drivers-ride-share-drivers\/"},"modified":"2019-05-16T03:58:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T03:58:00","slug":"regulatory-trend-employment-status-of-tnc-drivers-ride-share-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/regulatory-trend-employment-status-of-tnc-drivers-ride-share-drivers\/","title":{"rendered":"Regulatory TREND. Employment Status of TNC Drivers. Ride Share Drivers."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember how we talked about California regulators first entering the discussion of whether drivers are contract workers or employees? The issue is growing like a chia pet&#8217;s hair<\/p>\n<p>This week the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nlrb.gov\/news-publications\/nlrb-memoranda\/advice-memos?issuance_date=2019\">National Labor Relations Board issued a memo\u00a0<\/a>that the drivers are indpendent contractors.<\/p>\n<p>This follows the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dol.gov\/whd\/opinion\/FLSA\/2019\/2019_04_29_06_FLSA.pdf\">April 29th letter from the\u00a0Department of Labor.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cei.org\/blog\/regulators-find-uber-drivers-be-independent-contractors\">Competitive Enterprise Institute |\u00a0<\/a><a class=\"active\" href=\"https:\/\/cei.org\/blog\/regulators-find-uber-drivers-be-independent-contractors\" style=\"color:#000000;text-decoration:none;\">Regulators Find Uber Drivers to Be Independent Contractors<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember how we talked about California regulators first entering the discussion of whether drivers are contract workers or employees? The issue is growing like a chia pet&#8217;s hair<\/p>\n<p>This week the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nlrb.gov\/news-publications\/nlrb-memoranda\/advice-memos?issuance_date=2019\">National Labor Relations Board issued a memo\u00a0<\/a>that the drivers are indpendent contractors.<\/p>\n<p>This follows the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dol.gov\/whd\/opinion\/FLSA\/2019\/2019_04_29_06_FLSA.pdf\">April 29th letter from the\u00a0Department of Labor.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cei.org\/blog\/regulators-find-uber-drivers-be-independent-contractors\">Competitive Enterprise Institute |\u00a0<\/a><a class=\"active\" href=\"https:\/\/cei.org\/blog\/regulators-find-uber-drivers-be-independent-contractors\" style=\"color:#000000;text-decoration:none;\">Regulators Find Uber Drivers to Be Independent Contractors<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,26,7,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislative-trend","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\/1274","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=1274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}