California Court Rules for Uber, Lyft in Ridesharing Case March 15, 2023 By Adam Beam App-based ride hailing and delivery companies like Uber and Lyft can continue to treat their California drivers as independent contractors,...
Court Rules Uber, Lyft Can Classify Gig Workers as Contractors March 14, 2023 By Jackie Davalos Uber Technologies Inc., Lyft Inc. and other gig economy companies scored a victory after a California appeals court upheld the...
Seattle Ending Virus Emergency Proclamation, Rules for Gig Workers Changing October 13, 2022 The City of Seattle, Washington, will end its COVID-19 emergency proclamation at the end of October. Mayor Bruce Harrell said...
Legal Challenges Could Hamper U.S. Rule to Limit Independent Contracting October 12, 2022 By Daniel Wiessner Business groups will almost certainly file lawsuits in an attempt to delay or derail a rule proposed by the Biden...
Massachusetts High Court Nixes Gig Worker Ballot Measure Sought by Uber, Lyft June 15, 2022 By Andrew G. Simpson Transportation and delivery network companies including Uber, Lyft, DoorDash and Instacart have been dealt a setback in Massachusetts as the...
Seattle Considering Measures to Address Gig Worker Pay, Rights June 1, 2022 The Seattle City Council is voting on the first in a series of policies that would ask app-based companies like...
European Gig Workers Hail ‘Landmark’ Directive to Make Them Employees December 9, 2021 By Jillian Deutsch and Ivan Levingston Millions of platform workers in Europe could be on their way to being designated as employees, a move that labor...
Uber UK Accused of Undermining Court Ruling on Worker Rights November 23, 2021 By Ellen Milligan Nine months after the UK Supreme Court made a crucial decision that effectively forced Uber Technologies Inc. to provide worker...
DoorDash Paying $5M in San Francisco Worker Misclassification Probe November 22, 2021 By Tina Bellon Delivery company DoorDash Inc. is paying more than $5 million to settle an investigation by San Francisco into alleged labor...
Massachusetts Gig Worker Ballot Measure Backers Submit Signatures November 17, 2021 By Nate Raymond Backers of a measure that asks Massachusetts voters to treat drivers for app-based companies like Uber Technologies Inc and Lyft...