> “The jury in this case will be handed a square peg and asked to choose between two round holes,” [U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria] wrote. “The test the California courts have developed over the 20th Century for classifying workers isn’t very helpful in addressing this 21st Century problem.”

I know the author is an attorney and thus interested in the law as it currently exists rather than how it might be, but these articles about reclassifying contractors always seem to treat the issue like the laws are stone. The sharing economy is mutually appreciated by most of its contractors and most of its customers, it creates value for society, and the solution is that Congress and the California legislature need to revise these outdated 20th century labor laws to reflect current realities. We don't have to fit Uber into the classifications we currently have -- the law should change with the times. And they don't have to cave entirely to the demands of Uber et al -- there is a world in which state and federal laws are rewritten to recognize these contractor jobs while adding protections and job guarantees (like being able to charge your own price) without declaring all employees are FTE like someone with a desk job.