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ARTICLE · 20 MAY 2020

California Sues Uber And Lyft For Worker Misclassification

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Uber and Lyft have fought hard against AB5 for over a year.

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This week, more shots were fired in the ongoing war over AB5. On May 5, 2020, California's Attorney General and city attorneys for Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Francisco sued Uber and Lyft for misclassification of hundreds of thousands of California workers.

Under AB5, a California law that went into effect on January 1, 2020, workers are presumed to be employees unless the hiring entity proves that the worker:

(A) is free from the control and direction of the company in performing work, both practically and in the contractual agreement between the parties;

(B) performs work that is outside the usual course of the company's business; and,

(C) is customarily engaged in an independently established trade, occupation, or business of the same nature as the work performed for the company.

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Originally published by the New York Legal Ethics Reporter

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