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A Lyft vehicle in Santa Monica, California, with the original grill-stache branding, since retired. Lyft was launched in the summer of 2012 by computer programmers Logan Green and John Zimmer as a service of Zimride, a long-distance intercity carpooling company focused on college transport that they founded in 2007 after Green shared rides from the University of California, Santa Barbara ...
California Superior Court Judge Ethan Schulman issued his ruling on August 10, 2020, stating that Uber and Lyft must treat their drivers as employees under AB-5, as their work in the context of the "ABC test" was not outside the usual course of their business, nor was a "multi-sided platform" as Uber and Lyft had argued but simply ...
After the launch of the Lyft app in May 2012 for intra-city rides, the Lyft app rapidly grew and became the focus of the company. Zimride officially renamed as Lyft in May 2013, and the Zimride service was sold to Enterprise Holdings in July 2013. [4] [5] As of July 2013, the service had over 350,000 users and had partnerships with Facebook and ...
Drivers working for ride-hailing services such as Uber Technologies Inc and Lyft Inc will now be considered employees under California's new gig worker law, the state's public utilities agency ...
(Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a challenge by Uber and Lyft to lawsuits by the state of California on behalf of drivers who signed agreements to keep legal disputes ...
A bill passed by the California Assembly seems likely to classify Uber and Lyft drivers as employees, and it could cost the companies big.
Logan D. Green is the chairman and former CEO of Lyft, [1] which he co-founded with John Zimmer in 2012. [2] Lyft grew out of Zimride, a rideshare company previously founded by the duo in 2007. [3] [4] As of July 2017, Lyft provides over 1 million rides a day. [5] As of October 2017, Lyft is available in all 50 United States and in Toronto.
One company is done battling a gig economy-related lawsuit, at least in California. Lyft has agreed to grant its drivers more workplace protection and to pay $12.5 million to settle a proposed ...