{"id":829,"date":"2015-10-26T18:07:19","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T18:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/homejoy-shuts-down-after-battling-worker\/"},"modified":"2015-10-26T18:07:19","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T18:07:19","slug":"homejoy-shuts-down-after-battling-worker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/homejoy-shuts-down-after-battling-worker\/","title":{"rendered":"Homejoy Shuts Down After Battling Worker Classification Lawsuits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The company had already been facing growth and revenue challenges, but CEO Adora Cheung said the \u201cdeciding factor\u201d was the four lawsuits it was fighting over whether its workers should be classified as employees or contractors. None of them were class actions yet, but they made fundraising that much harder. The lawsuits were the nail in the coffin \u2014 Homejoy didn\u2019t have the war chest of Uber to fight long, costly legal battles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The company had already been facing growth and revenue challenges, but CEO Adora Cheung said the \u201cdeciding factor\u201d was the four lawsuits it was fighting over whether its workers should be classified as employees or contractors. None of them were class actions yet, but they made fundraising that much harder. The lawsuits were the nail [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}