The California state Legislature picked a fight with Uber and Lyft and other companies when it passed AB5, classifying their drivers as employees. The tech companies are fighting back with Proposition ...

Facing mounting legal pressure for classifying their vast workforces as contractors rather than employees, gig economy companies put forth what they argued was a better solution — one that would ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- A California appeals court has ruled Uber and Lyft violated a state labor law. Thursday's ruling said the rideshare companies misclassified their drivers as contractors rather than ...

The passage of Proposition 22, which grants exemptions to Uber, Lyft, and other app-based companies from California's gig worker law, dealt a crushing blow to workers' rights, opponents said, and a ...

Now that Californians have voted to keep ride-hailing drivers classified as contractors with limited job benefits, unions are shoring up their defenses as labor lawyers eye legal challenges and hope ...

Californians have voted to carve out specific gig workers from a state employment law about who is considered an employee and eligible for benefits. That means people who drive for Uber and Lyft will ...