Uber, Lyft Applaud California Supreme Court Ruling on Gig Workers

The California Supreme Court ruled Thursday (July 25) that gig workers can be classified as independent contractors, ending a long legal battle in the state. The court's ruling upheld a lower-court decision that Proposition 22, a 2020 ballot measure that allowed companies to classify drivers as gig workers, was constitutional, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Thursday. A yearslong legal battle followed voters' passage of Proposition 22, as some drivers and the Service Employees International Union (SE ...