Court: Uber, Lyft don’t have to treat drivers as employees yet
By Cathy Bussewitz and Michael Leidtke | Associated Press BERKELEY — An appeals court has allowed ride-hailing giants Uber and Lyft to continue treating their drivers as independent contractors in...
View ArticleCalifornia Lyft driver sentenced for raping unconscious customer
LOS ANGELES — A Lyft driver was sentenced to six years in California prison Tuesday for raping an unconscious customer. Octavio Alvarez Gomez, 39, of Canoga Park was sentenced in connection with an...
View ArticleEditorial: Prop. 22 would stop the assault on gig firms and workers
Click here for a complete list of our election recommendations. With the likes of Uber, Lyft, DoorDash and Instacart, the gig economy has revolutionized transportation and how we shop. During the...
View ArticleLetters: Pleasanton Council | Undoing gains
Submit your letter to the editor via this form. Read more Letters to the Editor. Vote for Nancy Allen for Pleasanton council I would like to express my support for Nancy Allen for Pleasanton City...
View ArticleLetters: Actions belie concern | Tonkel for SJ Council | Prop. 22 |...
Submit your letter to the editor via this form. Read more Letters to the Editor. Newsom’s actions belie climate change concern Gov. Gavin Newsom is absolutely right to call out climate change as the...
View ArticleLetters: Stalled police reform | Promoting flexibility | Climate votes |...
Submit your letter to the editor via this form. Read more Letters to the Editor. Greed, cowardice doom necessary police reform I read with dismay that SB 731 didn’t even make it to the Assembly floor...
View ArticleLetters: Slow growth | Restrictions hurt kids | No on Prop. 19 | Exploiting...
Submit your letter to the editor via this form. Read more Letters to the Editor. Cupertino should eschew pro-growth candidates I am furious with The Mercury News endorsing pro-growth candidates (“Hung...
View ArticleOpinion: Don’t believe what Uber and Lyft claim about Prop. 22
By now, you’ve probably seen some slick ads for Proposition 22, paid for by Uber, Lyft and other app-based companies. They hope you have because they’re spending $181 million to tell you a story. These...
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Prop 22: The $185 million campaign to keep Uber and Lyft drivers as...
By Sara Ashley O’Brien | CNN Business At first, Uber and Lyft driver Michael Richert was undecided about how he would vote on Proposition 22, a California ballot initiative sponsored by gig economy...
View ArticleSkelton: It’s a close call, but vote yes on Prop. 22
California has never seen anything like this. Nor has any state — a record $200 million spent on a single ballot measure. It’s understandable. The financial stakes are high. This is about new...
View ArticleCalifornia court says Uber, Lyft drivers are employees
SAN FRANCISCO — A California appeals court on Thursday upheld an order requiring Uber and Lyft to treat their California drivers as employees instead of independent contractors, less than two weeks...
View ArticleUber and Lyft spend big, but poll shows Prop 22 struggling
Despite record spending from Uber and Lyft, a ballot measure that would allow the app-based companies to classify drivers as independent contractors is struggling with voters heading into the last week...
View ArticleProp 22: Both sides throw last-minute millions into close fight
Bay Area “gig-economy” companies fighting state law and court rulings that would force them to classify their workers as employees have pumped another $9 million into their massive push for Prop. 22,...
View ArticleCalifornia propositions: Big win for Gig work measure Prop 22, tight race...
Faced with the opportunity to pull their liberal state further to the left through several state ballot propositions, California voters sided with tech companies in a fight over the future of the gig...
View ArticleUber, Lyft shares jump as California set to pass gig-worker ballot measure
By Munsif Vengattil and Tina Bellon | Reuters Shares of Uber Technologies Inc and Lyft Inc jumped in premarket trading on Wednesday, as Wall Street cheered the app-based firms’ projected victory in...
View ArticleOpinion: How California can create a safety net for gig workers
What would a safety net look like for gig workers? It would provide health insurance, retirement sick leave, and injured worker and unemployment compensation. It would be equitable and portable: A...
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Prop 22: Uber rides and food deliveries will cost more in California to cover...
By Sara Ashley O’Brien | CNN Business Uber said Monday that customers in California will see prices increase this week for rides and food deliveries to help cover the costs of new benefits for its...
View ArticleOpinion: Stop political spending by foreign-influenced U.S. firms
Although the aftermath of the presidential election has dominated headlines since Election Day, California saw a development that strikes at the heart of its own self-governance. Foreign-influenced...
View ArticleLyft driver got carjacked, then hit with large deductible
By Tim McNicholas | WBBM via CNN CHICAGO – A South Side Lyft driver says his own passenger carjacked him, and the police later found his car wrecked. Then, thanks to Lyft’s insurance policy, he was...
View ArticleLyft: Lawsuits claim poor driver screening leads to ‘sexual predators’ raping...
Bay Area ride-hailing giant Lyft is accused in a series of new lawsuits of failing to protect female passengers from rape by drivers. One plaintiff claims she was 15 when her driver raped her and then...
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