A California judge this week ordered Uber and Lyft to stop classifying their workers as independent contractors and start classifying them as employees, an order the two firms have 10 days to comply with barring further legal action. Both firms have already requested stays while they file...
Delivery company DoorDash is facing a lawsuit from the San Francisco district attorney over allegedly illegally classifying its workers as contractors rather than employees. The charge comes with the accusation that the company failed to help its employees navigate the economic fallout of the pandemic...
Uber and Postmates have filed a lawsuit against the state of California to try and block a new law that will change how they must classify their employees. AB 5 — which goes into law this week — will limit the classification of workers as...
About a year-and-a-half after a state Supreme Court decision that brought the issue to the forefront of legislators’ attention, the California Senate voted to approve Assembly Bill 5 on Tuesday (Sept. 10) — and in so doing has very possibly changed the course of the gig economy...
August 12, 2020
A California judge this week ordered Uber and Lyft to stop classifying their workers as independent contractors and start classifying them as employees, an order the two firms have 10 days to comply with barring further legal action. Both firms have already requested stays while they file appeals, but the ruling could have big potential consequences for […]
September 11, 2019
About a year-and-a-half after a state Supreme Court decision that brought the issue to the forefront of legislators’ attention, the California Senate voted to approve Assembly Bill 5 on Tuesday (Sept. 10)...
October 21, 2020
Uber is weighing contingency plans that could dramatically shrink its California operations should a ballot campaign aimed at revoking a controversial state labor law fall short on Election Day. Speaking at The Wall Street Journal’s annual Tech Live confab, Uber Chief Executive Dara Khosrowshahi dropped some ominous hints that a major overhaul – and downsizing […]
June 17, 2020
Delivery company DoorDash is facing a lawsuit from the San Francisco district attorney over allegedly illegally classifying its workers as contractors rather than employees. The charge comes with the accusation...
December 31, 2019
Uber and Postmates have filed a lawsuit against the state of California to try and block a new law that will change how they must classify their employees. AB 5...
September 11, 2019
California lawmakers passed a controversial labor bill on Tuesday (Sept. 10) that could turn on-demand contract workers into full-fledged employees. App-based businesses tried to work out immunity to no avail...
