Uber changing app to avoid reach of California's new gig workers law

The company is giving drivers more freedom, but critics say the move is a 'smokescreen' and that nothing has really changed

For the past month, the ride-hailing company Uber has been piloting new features in California, such as letting drivers set their own payment rates, in hopes it will avoid the reach of a new state law threatening to reclassify its contractors as full-time employees.

But workers - and legal experts - say they aren't fooled.