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by skeeter2020 244 days ago
>> Should your employer tolerate you working another job while you are being paid to do yours?

When the company fights hard & dirty for decades to classify you as a contractor to externalize the majority of the costs in their business model? Yes.

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A decent margin of voters (41% to 58%) in California (in an election with 80% participation) voted to keep classifying them as contractors:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_California_Proposition_22

Maybe with an asterisk mentioning the 200+ million dollars Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, etc allegedly spent on it.