California Supreme Court will take up challenge to gig worker ...

Landmark Santa Barbara, California Supreme Court Ruling on ...

The court rejected the previously used “ABC test,” which presumed workers were employees unless they met specific criteria, including being free from company ...

Uber loses gig worker court decision - Legal Dive

However, the California Supreme Court will be hearing a separate case on the legality of a 2020 statewide ballot measure known as ...

Independent California truckers scramble after Supreme Court ...

OAKLAND – A law designed to force gig-economy companies like Uber, Lyft and DoorDash to accept workers as employees is also having a ...

Uber and Lyft score victory in California gig economy case

... supreme court says ride-hailing services can treat workers as contractors rather than employees. ... would no longer have the flexibility to work ...

Fate of Gig Workers' Benefits Now Up to the State Supreme Court

The state Supreme Court today heard a case that could have a profound impact on app-based companies like Uber and Lyft as well as on their drivers.

Defeat for Uber in California gig-worker appeal bid - HR Grapevine

... Court of Appeals in San Francisco on Monday rejected their bid to challenge a California law that could force the companies to treat drivers ...

Legislating the Gig Worker Economy

California became the first state to change its labor law and grant gig workers more labor protections when Assembly Bill 5, better known as AB5 ...

California Proposition 22 upheld: Independent contractors live to ...

On July 25, 2024, the California Supreme Court unanimously upheld the constitutionality of Proposition 22 in Castellanos v. State of California.

Prop 22: CA Supreme Court hears case on law classifying app ...

"Everyone is watching what California Supreme Court will decide and whether or not these companies have a right to classify their workers as ...

RELEASE: Gig Passenger and Delivery Driver Pay in Five Metro Areas

The findings come as the California Supreme Court prepares to hear arguments tomorrow on a challenge to Prop 22, a gig company-sponsored ...

Uber, Lyft want to defy California's gig economy law. The state ...

A few hours later, morning on the West Coast, San Francisco Superior Court Judge Ethan P. Schulman ruled that Uber and Lyft had to reclassify ...

Gig economy: Governments legislate to disrupt the disruptors

In September, Gavin Newsom, California's Governor, signed into law Assembly Bill 5 (AB 5), which will reclassify two million contractors as 'employees' ...

Gig Work on the Ballot in California | The New Yorker

5 was written to codify a 2018 California Supreme Court decision that determined, after a thirteen-year fight, that delivery couriers for ...

Proposition 22: A Vote on Gig Worker Status in California

California including the ruling by the California Supreme Court, the passage ... worker would have to perform work outside the “usual ...

Millions of gig workers could qualify as employees under new Biden ...

The rule will “help create a level playing field for businesses, protect workers from being denied the right to fair pay and affirm the vital ...

California Assembly Bill 5 (AB5): What's in It and What It Means

The court ruled that companies must use the test to determine how workers should be classified. We go into more detail on this a little further down.

Updates on AB5 and Prop 22 Legal Battles in California

22 saved Uber, Lyft, and other gig workers from AB5, spending more than $200 million to write their own labor law… which trucking failed to do. Both laws have ...

Uber Loses California Gig-Worker Appeal: What it Means for Drivers ...

On Monday, June 10, a U.S. appeals court rejected a bid by Uber and their subsidiary, Postmates, to revive a challenge to a California law that ...

Proposition 22 Survives: App-Based Rideshare and Delivery ...

In a substantial win for app-based rideshare and delivery companies, the California Supreme Court unanimously upheld California Proposition ...

How an only-in-California law could allow one Uber driver ... - Fortune

The court recently allowed a special lawsuit to be brought against Uber from drivers demanding coverage for work-related expenses. This decision ...