The Protect App-Based Drivers and Services coalition, an industry group, said the ruling upheld the policy of protecting “the independent-contractor status of app-based drivers in California, while…
A California appeals court said on Monday that Proposition 22, the ballot measure passed by state voters in 2020 that classified Uber and Lyft drivers as independent contractors rather than as employees, should remain state law.
The opponents of the proposition argued that the ballot measure was unconstitutional under several grounds. It set limits on the State Legislature’s ability to oversee workers’ compensation for gig drivers.
Jon Streeter, one of the three appeals court judges, disagreed with large parts of the 63-page ruling of his colleagues, Tracie Brown and Stuart Pollak. In a 64-page dissent, Justice Streeter wrote that all of Proposition 22 should be thrown out, in large part because of its clause limiting the legislature’s authority over workers’ compensation for gig drivers.
If A.B. 5, which is facing its own legal challenge, is ever applied to gig drivers, Uber and other companies could be found to be improperly treating those drivers as independent contractors rather than as employees.
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