A US court docket has dominated (PDF) that “gig” economic system giants together with Uber and Lyft can proceed treating their employees as unbiased contractors within the state of California. The BBC studies: The California appeals court docket discovered {that a} labor measure, often called Proposition 22, was largely constitutional. Labour teams and a few employees had opposed the measure, saying it robbed them of rights like sick depart. The companies say the proposition protects different advantages comparable to flexibility.
The newest ruling overturns a choice made by a decrease court docket in California in 2021, which discovered that Proposition 22 affected lawmakers’ powers to set requirements on the office. The state of California and a gaggle representing Uber, Lyft and different companies appealed towards the choice. On Monday, a three-judge panel on the appeals court docket dominated that employees might be handled as unbiased contractors. Nonetheless it eliminated a clause, which put restrictions on collective bargaining by employees, from Proposition 22.
