One of the provisions in the proposed Republican tax bill would come down hard on gig workers, as well as impairing labor rights and even cutting protections for employees.

An Alternet report cites law school professors tracking the bill as saying it would build "a new legal wall between businesses and so-called gig economy workers that absolves management of many obligations owed to employees."

"There is an important battle going on right now in labor and employment law over the appropriate classification of workers in the gig/platform/sharing economy," write Boston College's Shu-Yi Oei and Diane M. Ring for TaxProf Blog from Pepperdine University School of Law in the report.

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