Gig workers or employees? Uber, Lyft face fight in Calif.

摘要

Movement could rattle ride-hailing, delivery businesses across U.S. Tensions over whether drivers for Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. should be considered contractors or employees have come to a head. For years, the ride-hailing companies have classified their workers as independent contractors rather than employees - at the same time avoiding having to provide full employee benefits. Both companies have long said that changing the way drivers are classified would have a severe impact on already-thin profit margins. Now they face that possibility in the nation's most populous state. In California, both companies - along with food delivery service DoorDash - are campaigning for a ballot measure set for a vote in November that would exempt app-based transportation and delivery companies from requirements of a new state labor law.