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MADD Weighs in on California Proposition 22

By Jon Ibanez

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Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) has come out this past week in support of California Proposition 22. In a letter posted to the organization?s website, MADD National President Helen Witty stated that exempting ?gig workers,? such as Uber, Lyft, and other rideshare app drivers, from state law designating them ?employees? rather than independent contractors keeps rideshare services affordable and available. In 2019, the California legislature passed AB5 which designated rideshare drivers as employees. As employees, rideshare companies would have to provide certain employment benefits such as minimum wage, overtime, expense reimbursement, paid sick days, paid family leave, unemployment insurance and an employer health care option. While Uber and Lyft maintained that their employees were independent contractors, a judge ruled in August that the companies were in violation of AB5...continue to full post

Full post as published by DUI Blog on October 17, 2020 (boomark / email).