California passes landmark bill to treat contract workers as employees, sending it to the governor for signature

California on Tuesday approved a landmark bill that would consider contractors for companies like Uber and Lyft as employees.

The bill passed in a 29 to 11 vote in the State Senate, according to the $4, and it would apply to companies that use apps to manage their goods and services.

The landmark move will likely affect over 1 million workers in California. The bill's passage comes after years of debate on how to better manage a gig-based economy as people begin to shift their employment towards contract work.

California Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez said on $4 that the move would "stop the misclassification of nearly a million" California workers so that they would be entitled to employment benefits like minimum wage and workplace rights.

This is a developing story.

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