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The Service Employees International Union and a group of drivers first brought the lawsuit challenging Proposition 22 in January 2021, just after the law went into effect.
Plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging California's gig economy law Proposition 22 have made good on their promise to take the case to the state's highest court.
The Prop. 22-related wage claims reviewed by CalMatters were part of a larger set of nearly 200 claims that gig workers filed with the Industrial Relations Department since the law took effect in ...
A lawsuit was filed against the state in January 2021 by the Service Employees International Union over the successful passage of Proposition 22. The lawsuit states that Proposition 22 violates the Constitution of California, as it interferes with workers' access to the state's workers' compensation program and that it "limits the power of ...
[21] [22] In Martinez, the California Supreme Court considered an action brought by a worker, alleging that his employer had violated a wage order applicable to the industry in which he worked. [23] In considering whether the worker was an employee and thus covered by the applicable wage order, the Court found that the wage order—not the ...
Prop 22 was approved in November 2020 by nearly 60% of voters in California. It exempts app-based drivers from a 2019 state law known as AB5 that narrowed the circumstances in which many workers ...
California Assembly Bill 5 or AB 5 is a state statute that expands a landmark Supreme Court of California case from 2018, Dynamex Operations West, Inc. v. Superior Court ("Dynamex"). [1] In that case, the court held that most wage-earning workers are employees and ought to be classified as such, and that the burden of proof for classifying ...
Lawyers for gig companies and their workers squared off in a California appeals court on whether it should uphold a ruling that Proposition 22 is unconstitutional and unenforceable.