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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 ...
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. They unsuccessfully ...
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 ...
[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 ...
California's then-Secretary of State, Jerry Brown, sued to have Proposition 22 removed from the ballot amid allegations of signature fraud on the approving petition, violation of child labor laws (children as young as six years old were alleged to have been paid to collect signatures), and bribery. [52] The measure went down to defeat. [53]
A California appeals court has upheld most of Proposition 22, a 2020 ballot measure that treats drivers for ride-hailing and food-delivery companies as independent contractors rather than employees.
California's Supreme Court will hear arguments on the constitutionality of Proposition 22, which classified drivers working in the gig economy as independent contractors.