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The gig economy including ride share services like uber and lyft. they consider their drivers to be independent contractors and not employees. and both companies said they will fight the law. ubers chief legal officer told reporters that several previous rulings have found the drivers work is outside the usual course of ubers business which is serving as a technology platform for several different types of digital marketplaces. this is key to this whole argument. a lyft spokesperson says, quote,...

Thank you for joining me. >> good to be here. >> to some this would be obvious. of course drivers are central to uber and lyfts business. so how could they get around that law? but uber and lyft have a different argument entirely. >> well, of course. its patently absurd on the surface that the drivers do not work for uber. when you look at it, uber does not direct those drivers. the drivers dont report to managers at uber. uber is simply providing an app, a piece of software that makes it possib...