Proposition 22: What Has Changed, What Has Not

A cheat sheet for your doomscrolling

Sarah Kessler
OneZero
Published in
2 min readNov 4, 2020

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A cab driver helping a passenger load his luggage at LAX.
A taxi driver helps a departing passenger with his luggage in line of taxis at LAX on October 18, 2020. Photo: Francine Orr/ Los Angeles Times/Getty Images

Proposition 22 passed in California on Tuesday. Uber, Lyft, and other gig economy companies spent more than $200 million on the ballot measure, which will allow them to classify drivers as independent contractors rather than employees.

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Sarah Kessler
OneZero

Author and journalist, writing and editing at Medium’s OneZero.