{"id":216,"date":"2015-06-18T15:13:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T15:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2015\/06\/18\/regulatory-ruling-ride-share-drivers-as-independent-contractors-or-employees-2-part-answer\/"},"modified":"2015-06-18T15:13:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T15:13:00","slug":"regulatory-ruling-ride-share-drivers-as-independent-contractors-or-employees-2-part-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/regulatory-ruling-ride-share-drivers-as-independent-contractors-or-employees-2-part-answer\/","title":{"rendered":"Regulatory Ruling: Ride Share Drivers as Independent Contractors or Employees? 2 part answer."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, California Labor Commissioner ruled that ride share\u00a0drivers are employees. Its a ruling some say upends the business models for ride-share. The Regulatory rational:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Ride Share companies are involved in every aspect of the operation.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Ride Share companies\u00a0dictates such things as how old a driver\u2019s car can be and who is qualified to offer services through the Uber platform.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Labor Commissioner ruling arose from a\u00a0wage and reimbursement dispute. It also applies only to the 1 wage dispute. State and federal lawsuits are also pending on this\u00a0issue.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2015-06-17\/uber-driver-was-employee-california-labor-commissioner-says\">Bloomberg<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.therecorder.com\/id=1202729772830\/Uber-Driver-Deemed-Employee-by-California-Regulator?kw=Uber%20Driver%20Deemed%20Employee%20by%20California%20Regulator&amp;et=editorial&amp;bu=Corporate%20Counsel&amp;cn=20150617&amp;src=EMC-Email&amp;pt=Afternoon%20Update&amp;slreturn=20150518111856\">The Recorder<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/the-switch\/wp\/2015\/06\/17\/uber-driver-is-an-employee-not-a-contractor-california-regulators-say\/?wpmm=1&amp;wpisrc=nl_wonk\">Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, California Labor Commissioner ruled that ride share\u00a0drivers are employees. Its a ruling some say upends the business models for ride-share. The Regulatory rational:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Ride Share companies are involved in every aspect of the operation.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Ride Share companies\u00a0dictates such things as how old a driver\u2019s car can be and who is qualified to offer services through the Uber platform.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Labor Commissioner ruling arose from a\u00a0wage &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,10,26,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-trend","category-legislative-trend","category-regulatory-trend","category-ride-share","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","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=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}