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Judge orders New York to pay unemployment to Uber and Lyft drivers
- m-watson 6y agoThe actual ruling [PDF]: https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nyed.448390/gov.uscourts.nyed.448390.24.0.pdf https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nyed.448390...
- pmdulaney 6y agoAm I getting this right? New York (along with California) forced Uber and Lyft to reclassify their contractor drivers as employees -- and then refused to pay them unemployment, as their employee status would require?
- m-watson 6y agoIt seems like a kind of situation from this part: "Since 2016, the New York Department of Labor has held that ride-hail drivers were employees for purposes of unemployment insurance. But Uber and Lyft have dragged their feet, failing to provide wage data that would enable the agency to calculate unemployment payments for each worker." So they have to consider them employees for purposes of insurance but seem to not have fully complied in the first place.