The California Supreme Court docket upheld Proposition 22 in a unanimous choice on Thursday. The poll measure permits Uber, Lyft and a plethora of different gig app firms to categorise drivers on their companies as contractors as a substitute of workers. Prop 22 handed in November 2020 with 58.6 % of voters in favor of the measure. Each Uber and Lyft threatened to droop companies in California if the measure was struck down.
Together with their threats, Uber and Lyft spent over $200 million on its Sure on Prop 22 marketing campaign. Unions and driver advocacy teams fashioned the core of the grassroots opposition actions earlier than and after the vote. The Service Staff Worldwide Union and a bunch of drivers have been the primary to file a lawsuit contesting Proposition 22’s constitutionality in January 2021, in response to the Los Angeles Occasions. Understandably, drivers weren’t going to simply accept being denied primary employment rights like a minimal wage, time beyond regulation and sick go away.
The Proposition 22 case reached the state’s highest court docket after the Superior Court docket of Alameda County dominated the measure was unconstitutional. Choose Frank Roesch’s August 2021 choice centered on the initiative’s requirement for a 7/8ths majority to make any modification to the legislation within the state legislature and its definition of modification together with unrelated laws.
Within the years that Proposition 22 was being argued in court docket, the measure was enforced as legislation and app drivers reported that their pay was slashed in consequence. There have been accounts of employees juggling three completely different apps simply to make ends meet. Prop 22 in California is probably going solely the start as Uber and Lyft are pushing for related legal guidelines in different states throughout the nation.
