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The Battle Continues: Prop 22 Struck Down, AB 5 Appealed

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 9/27/2021

The long-running battle over the classification of workers as independent contractors or employees in California continues, with a trial court judge striking down Proposition 22 and an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court to...more

Financial Daily Dose 2.9.2021 | Top Story: Tesla Pours $1.5B into Bitcoin, Prompts Crypto Surge

Robins Kaplan LLP on 2/9/2021

Tesla dropped an incredible $1.5 billion on bitcoin on Monday “and signaled its intent to begin accepting the cryptocurrency as a form of payment, sending prices to a record after the vote of confidence from the EV leader and...more

Financial Daily Dose 10.23.2020 | Top Story: CA Appeals Court Tells Uber and Lyft to Treat Drivers as Employees

Robins Kaplan LLP on 10/23/2020

A California appeals court has affirmed a lower court decision requiring Uber and Lyft to “treat their California drivers as employees, providing them with the benefits and wages they are entitled to under state labor law.”...more

Financial Daily Dose 8.21.2020 | Top Story: Court Stays CA Gig-Worker Law; Uber and Lyft to Keep Operating in State During Appeal

Robins Kaplan LLP on 8/21/2020

A state appeals court in California has preempted Uber and Lyft’s threatened state-wide shutdown over a new state law ordering them to reclassify their drivers as employees by “allowing them to continue operating [under their...more

Financial Daily Dose 8.20.2020 | Top Story: Apple Becomes First U.S. Company to Hit $2 Trillion Valuation Mark

Robins Kaplan LLP on 8/20/2020

Apple tipped the $2 trillion mark this week, the first U.S. company to reach that valuation milestone, doing so just 2 years after it first hit $1 trillion. That it’s done so in the middle of a pandemic only punctuates how...more

Financial Daily Dose 7.15.2020 | Top Story: America’s Biggest Banks Setting Aside Tens of Billions for Anticipated Loan Losses

Robins Kaplan LLP on 7/16/2020

The latest quarterly reporting shows that America’s biggest banks—among them, JPMorgan, Citigroup, and Wells Fargo—are taking self-imposed hits now in anticipation of a “wave of loan losses” later. Those three are...more

Financial Daily Dose 5.27.2020 | Top Story: AT&T Officially Enters Streaming Wars With Its Pricey HBO Max Offering

Robins Kaplan LLP on 5/28/2020

With HBO Max entering the fray today, we’ve got your latest dispatch from the streaming wars, including thoughts on Max’s ability to deliver on its promise to “crush” Netflix despite a very crowded playing field, a spendy...more

Magna and Lyft Call It Quits on AV Partnership

Baker Donelson on 1/22/2020

In its January 16, 2020 earnings release, Magna International disclosed that it is ending its two-year partnership with Lyft that was started to co-develop self-driving technology. ...more

Window On Washington - Vol. 3, Issue 39

Clark Hill PLC on 10/22/2019

Outlook for This Week in the Nation's Capital - Senate Appropriations. The Senate plans to bring up two House minibus appropriations bills this week according to Senate Majority Leader McConnell (R-KY). ...more

Navigating the Healthcare Highway With Lyft’s Head of Healthcare

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 9/25/2019

Editor’s Note: In the latest edition of her Tech Tonics podcast series, Manatt Health’s Lisa Suennen speaks with Megan Callahan, Head of Healthcare for Lyft. Megan shares her healthcare career journey—as well as the insights...more

Lyft Drivers Allege Uber Spied on them for Competitive Edge

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 6/6/2017

A former Lyft driver filed a class action lawsuit in the Northern District of California against Uber, alleging Uber violated the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (“ECPA”), the California Invasion of Privacy Act...more

March 2017: The 15 Biggest Labor And Employment Law Stories

Fisher Phillips on 4/11/2017

It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While it always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, the last few months have seen an unprecedented number of changes. March 2017 was another month...more

March 2017 Independent Contractor Misclassification and Compliance News Update

Troutman Pepper on 4/3/2017

The past month included significant state and federal appellate court decisions, large settlements of IC misclassification class actions, class and collective action certifications, and two IC misclassification class actions...more

Retail and Consumer Products Law Roundup - December 2016

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 12/19/2016

How Retailers Can Avoid Regulatory Scrutiny During Holiday Season - With the holiday season often accounting for one-third of a retailer’s annual sales, competition can be fierce. Tempting as it is to grab for every...more

2016 California Labor and Employment Legislation Update: It’s Final!

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 10/4/2016

Seyfarth Synopsis: Employers in California: be aware and prepare for new laws increasing minimum wages and mandating overtime pay for agricultural employees; expanding the California Fair Pay Act to race and ethnicity and to...more

New Economy Businesses Need New Insurance: Can the Insurance Industry Keep Up?

JD Supra Perspectives on 9/29/2016

The sharing economy and new technology innovations have disrupted the traditional underwriting and risk assessment models....more

Set Pickup Location: Uber Is Coming to Retail

Goulston & Storrs PC on 6/23/2016

On-demand delivery services, such as Uber and its competitors Lyft and Postmates, are increasingly taking steps that have the potential to offer a counterpunch to online retailers such as Amazon and may shake up the brick and...more

What The $100M Uber Settlement Means To All Employers

Fisher Phillips on 4/28/2016

The ride-sharing company Uber recently announced a preliminary $100 million agreement to settle claims alleging that it improperly classifies its workforce as independent contractors. Because the settlement involves the...more

Opposition to Lyft’s $12.25 Million Independent Contractor Misclassification Settlement May Cause Court to Nix the Deal

Troutman Pepper on 3/16/2016

Papers were filed in court today formally opposing the deal that Lyft agreed to with the lawyers representing over 100,000 Lyft drivers in their class action brought in the federal court in San Francisco. The objectors were...more

December 2015 / January 2016 Independent Contractor Compliance and Misclassification News Update

Troutman Pepper on 2/2/2016

This Update covers the two-month period of December 2015 and January 2016. The headnote for this period is: don’t classify drivers as ICs unless you do it right! Eight of the nine cases reported below involve drivers....more

$228 Million: The Cost of Independent Contractor Misclassification for FedEx Ground in California

Troutman Pepper on 6/15/2015

Yesterday, June 12, FedEx announced in papers filed with the SEC that its Ground Division “has reached an agreement in principle with [drivers] in the independent contractor litigation that is pending in …California [federal...more

Uber, Lyft Decisions Highlight Difficulty of Classifying Workers in the Modern Economy

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 3/23/2015

“The test the California courts have developed over the 20th Century for classifying workers isn’t very helpful in addressing . . . 21st Century problem[s].” So concluded the court in Cotter v. Lyft, Inc., one of two...more

Uber, Lyft “Employee or Independent Contractor” Cases Provide Classification Lessons for All Employers

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 3/18/2015

The more things change, the more they stay the same. As our “on-demand” society continues to develop and services are offered in ever new and more convenient ways, businesses must remain mindful of the traditional factors...more

Uber and Lyft Lose Key Motions in California Independent Contractor Class Actions; Decisions Have Far-Reaching Implications for...

Troutman Pepper on 3/12/2015

March 11, 2015 was a tough day for Uber and Lyft. Federal court judges in California issued separate decisions yesterday in class action lawsuits brought by drivers of Uber and Lyft who allege that those companies...more

National League of Cities Issues Report on the Sharing Economy

Best Best & Krieger LLP on 12/8/2014

The National League of Cities has released a report on the current climate across the nation with regard to the “sharing economy” that may provide localities who are dealing with these issues potential templates to follow....more

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