So basically their tactic is to eke out a few more years out of their business model as their fight with California over the classification slowly snakes its way through the courts to the California supreme court, and hope that in the meantime they can come up with a better business model?
It is actually not a terribly bad idea. They have the money to pay for the slow court battle, and it is strictly cheaper than complying.
Dynamex lost (Dynamex Operations West, Inc. v. Superior Court), which caused AB5 to be written. Uber did not yet lose (or even get sued) over this yet IIRC
It is actually not a terribly bad idea. They have the money to pay for the slow court battle, and it is strictly cheaper than complying.