If this sticks, it just means that Uber drivers will get paid less in cash, more in benefits, and lose the ability to take business tax deductions.

Is that really better for the drivers? Sounds worse to me.

I ask because many people have been claiming Uber is a bad actor for making drivers contractors, but it's not clear to me that it's a big win for the drivers to be classified as employees. Actually it seems worse in many ways.