The Dynamex decision is set to hurt workers and businesses alike by reducing flexibility and ratcheting up the cost of doing business in the Golden State.
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Economic costs and policy alternatives to California’s Dynamex decision
Key Points
- 1) While it's impossible to know how many workers will be classified, there's no question that Dynamex is - directly - going to increase the cost of doing business in California.
- 2) As the cost of labor increases, those most tenuously attached to the labor force will be the first to lose the work on which they rely.
- 3) Policy innovation, not retrenchment into a classification binary, is the best way to ensure workers have protections moving forward.