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California AG, cities bring suit against Uber and Lyft over worker classification

May 6, 2020

Via: Jurist

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, along with attorneys from three of the state’s largest cities, filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. claiming their misclassification of workers as independent contractors violates state law and places a burden on California taxpayers.

The suit, filed by Becerra and city attorneys for San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego in the Superior Court of San Francisco, alleges that Uber and Lyft made the “calculated business decision to misclassify their on-demand drivers as independent contractors rather than employees.”

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