Labor/Employment
Sep. 6, 2017
Grubhub trial tests employment status in sharing economy
Attorneys for Grubhub Inc. and one of the company’s former drivers exchanged opening arguments Tuesday in a case that could determine the relationship between workers and the companies that pay them in the “sharing economy.”
SAN FRANCISCO — Attorneys for Grubhub Inc. and one of the company’s former drivers exchanged opening arguments Tuesday in a case that could determine the relationship between workers and the companies that pay them in the “sharing economy.”
The case in federal court involves a former Grubhub driver, Raef Lawson, who says the incentive-based system constructed by Grubhub creates a relationship that in many ways resembles employment.
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