Labor/Employment
Sep. 27, 2024
State takes post-Prop 22 wage theft claims off the table
Defendants Uber and Lyft have denied wrongdoing in a wage theft case brought by the state and rideshare drivers and have repeatedly claimed that Proposition 22 insulates them from claims brought after Dec. 15, 2020.
An attorney for the California State Labor Commissioner on Thursday read into the court record that the government and individual driver plaintiffs in a coordinated proceeding against Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. will not pursue wage theft claims that arose after Proposition 22 took effect.
The coordinated proceeding combines cases from across the state brought by hundreds of rideshare drivers claiming to have been misclassified as independent contractors and have been dep...
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