A ride share car displays Lyft and Uber stickers on its front windshield in downtown Los Angeles. Drivers for app-based ride-hailing and delivery services are suing to overturn a California ballot initiative that makes them independent contractors instead of employees eligible for benefits and job protections. — AP
Ride-hail and delivery drivers are suing to invalidate the California ballot measure approved in November that declared them independent contractors, the latest volley in the state’s years-long struggle over whether gig workers are employees.
The Service Employees International Union and a group of drivers for Uber Technologies Inc, Lyft Inc, DoorDash Inc and Instacart Inc filed a petition Tuesday in the California Supreme Court claiming that Proposition 22, the measure the gig companies spent US$200mil (RM808.60mil) to place on the ballot and get approved by voters, violates the state’s constitution.
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