Lyft Pays New Jersey $19.4 Million Over Misclassifying 100,000 Drivers September 19, 2025 By Andrew G. Simpson Transportation company Lyft has paid the state of New Jersey $19.4 million to settle a case involving misclassification of more...
Massachusetts Faces Off Against Uber, Lyft in Trial Over Status of Gig Workers May 13, 2024 By Nate Raymond Uber Technologies and Lyft are set to face trial on Monday in a U.S. lawsuit by Massachusetts’ attorney general alleging...
Status of Uber, Lyft Gig Workers Riding On Massachusetts Court Fight May 6, 2024 By Nate Raymond Massachusetts has become the latest front in a years-long battle in the United States over whether ride-share drivers for Uber...
Uber Can’t Avoid Driver Classification Lawsuit, Says Supreme Court May 18, 2021 By Andrew Chung The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday turned away Uber’s bid to avoid a lawsuit over whether drivers for the ride-hailing...
New York Court Rules Gig Drivers Are Employees Eligible for Unemployment Benefits March 27, 2020 By Andrew G. Simpson Drivers for the online food delivery service Postmates Inc. are employees who are eligible for state unemployment insurance, New York’s...
California Freelance Journalists Sue Over New State Law December 19, 2019 Freelance writers and photographers on Tuesday filed the second legal challenge to a broad new California labor law that they...
Uber Being Sued Over Resistance to California ‘Gig’ Contractor Law September 13, 2019 By Jonathan Stempel A driver for Uber has sued the company for misclassifying its drivers as independent contractors, hours after California legislators voted...
Uber Refusing to Label Drivers as Employees Under California Law September 12, 2019 By Joel Rosenblat Facing the most serious threat yet to its business model, Uber Technologies Inc. is dusting off a legal argument it...
Bill to Tighten “Gig” Worker Rule Passed by California Senate September 11, 2019 By Lisa Baertlein The California State Senate voted on Tuesday to pass a bill that would make it much more difficult for gig...
Court in California Rules NCAA Athletes Are Not Employees August 13, 2019 By Christopher Yasiejko and Eben Novy-Williams A former linebacker for the University of Southern California wasn’t an employee of the National Collegiate Athletic Association or the...