California’s top prosecutor has taken his most aggressive step yet in his attempt to force Uber and other gig economy companies to treat their workers as employees.
State Atty. Gen. Xavier Becerra, backed by city attorneys in San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego, on Wednesday filed a request for a preliminary injunction in their lawsuit against the gig companies.The motion will be discussed at a hearing set for Aug. 6.
Drivers said the impact of COVID-19 had pushed them to the financial brink, unable to meet rent or mortgage obligations. Organizers said recent pledges by Khosrowshahi to support the Black Lives Matters movement were disingenuous, given that so many of the company’s drivers, many of them from minority backgrounds, were not being treated “with dignity and respect.”
A new law, California Assembly Bill 5, or AB 5, came into force at the beginning of the year. It codified a Supreme Court ruling that set out criteria for treating workers as employees rather than independent contractors. The law is now being used to take the gig economy companies to court.
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