California voters decide Uber and Lyft drivers are ‘contractors’ as gig workers continue search for a livable wage

Photo caption: Lyft and Uber had threatened to leave California if forced to make their drivers employees. Al Seib / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images. Article by Juliet B. Schor.

Uber, TaskRabbit and other ride-hailing and delivery service companies in California can keep classifying their workers as independent contractors rather than employees after California voters approved a measure known as Proposition 22, according to the state’s still-unofficial tally . The fundamental question of whether Uber drivers and similar workers […]

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