by Bob Walsh
Ethan
P Schulman, judge of the Superior Court in and for the city and county
of San Francisco, has ruled that Uber and Lyft can not legally stall
compliance with a new state law until the November election and must
start treating their drivers as employees and not independent
contractors.
The issue
will be on the November ballot. Normally such a new law would be held
in abeyance until the November vote, but at least preliminarily that
will not be the case.
Uber
and Lyft are complaining, with some justification, that this requirement
will badly damage their business model and will have a serious negative
impact on many of their drivers, who LIKE the flexibility that the gig
economy brings them.
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