Gig companies facing fights over Prop. 22 in California and in states where they want to replicate it

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : Michael LeRoy, a labor and law professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, called Prop. 22 "a special-interest law that creates more burdens on the social safety net that responsible employers have no choice but to pay into."
43% : The gig companies, which have said they plan to appeal the ruling, rely on treating their workers as independent contractors instead of employees and do not pay taxes that contribute toward states' worker-compensation funds, unemployment insurance and other costs other employers bear.

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