While Prop. 22 guarantees workers some protections — such as 120 percent of the local minimum wage for each hour spent driving, a health insurance stipend and reimbursement for work-related injuries — it falls short of the full range of benefits that Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, Instacart and other services would have had to provide if workers were classified as employees.
Uber, Lyftand DoorDash They have all issued responses in support of the court's decision. “From the moment it became law, Prop. 22 has been working for the millions of drivers and couriers who make money on platforms like ours,” Uber writes in a post on its website. “Uber alone has delivered more than 1 billion dollars in direct benefits to date.”
Opponents of Prop 22 are frustrated with the outcome. “We are deeply disappointed that the state Supreme Court has allowed tech corporations to buy their way out of basic labor laws despite Prop 22’s inconsistencies with our state constitution,” Lorena Gonzalez, president of the California Federation of Labor Unions, said in a statement. Statement published online“These companies have upended our social contract, forcing workers and the public to assume the inherent risks that come with this work, while they themselves profit.”
Other places, like Massachusetts, Minneapolis and New York City, have put some protections in place for Uber, Lyft and DoorDash drivers, but they are still classified as contractors.
