People Processes

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4ou875lubg] The California Labor Commissioner’s Office has filed separate lawsuits against transportation companies Uber and Lyft for committing wage theft by misclassifying employees as independent contractors. Uber and Lyft have misclassified their drivers, which has deprived these workers of a host of legal protections in violation of California labor law, the complaints allege. The goal of the lawsuits is to enforce California labor laws and to ensure that drivers are not misclassified as independent contractors, according to an August 5 https://www.dir.ca.gov/DIRNews/2020/2020-65.html (press statement) announcing the lawsuit. In 2018, the California Supreme Court’s https://hr.cch.com/ELD/DynamexSuperior043018.pdf (Dynamex) ruling established the "ABC test" for determining whether a worker is an employee under various California labor laws. https://hr.cch.com/eld/20190AB5-92.pdf (Assembly Bill 5), which went into effect on January 1, 2020