Labor/Employment,
Civil Litigation
Nov. 23, 2021
DoorDash to pay $5.3M for misclassifying San Francisco drivers
DoorDash did not admit any wrongdoing. DoorDash has maintained that its workers are appropriately classified as independent contractors, pointing to the “flexible earning opportunities and meaningful benefits and protections Proposition 22 affords Dashers across California.”
DoorDash will pay $5.3 million to settle a lawsuit brought by San Francisco accusing it of illegally failing to give workers health care and sick leave benefits mandated by the city, the San Francisco City Attorney's Office announced Monday.
The deal covers nearly 4,500 drivers who made deliveries between 2016 and 2020, before Proposition 22 set new worker classification rules for gig companies. It was reached after a federal appeals court...
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