Week 9 Tutorial: Reform briefing

Mapping the Closing Loopholes minimum-standards order onto the mechanisms studied earlier in semester

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Before the session#

Take two provisions from the 2024 “employee-like worker” minimum standards order and map each onto a specific mechanism the course has already covered — the ETA model from week 2, the scoring penalty from week 4, a deactivation trigger, or similar. Then name one mechanism from those weeks that the order still doesn’t reach. Bring the mapping as a short table: provision, mechanism, covered or not.

In the session#

Small groups build a shared table mapping order provisions — the minimum pay floor, the deactivation-notice requirement, the collective-bargaining access clause — onto specific platform mechanisms from your week 6 unit economics breakdown and week 2 ETA log, then identify gaps: what a rider affected by one of those mechanisms still isn’t covered for.

Afterwards#

This table is useful raw material for the comparative essay due in week 11.