Silicon Valley gig-economy companies are railing against eleventh-hour amendments to a state labor bill that would reclassify potentially millions of workers in California as employees, calling the changes “punitive” and “capricious.”

At issue is new language in Assembly Bill 5 that would allow attorneys for the state’s four largest cities to pursue injunctions against companies for any continued classification of their workers as independent contractors and not employees.

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