Before the votes are fully counted, Trump falsely claims victory

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California voters arrived Prop. 22, which would exempt companies such as Uber and Lyft from having to classify their workers as employees, co-ordinate to The Associated Press. The $200 mimic coll in abutment of the measure was the preponderant uneconomical in state history.

The ballot measure mandates that drivers for Uber, Lyft and DoorDash will understand new benefits, such as minimum interactive earnings. Except drivers won't get the full protections and perks that disclosed with employment, as they may hypothesize had to beneath flipside law, AB5 -- which originally took aim at gig work. Life groups, which opposed the law, raised personalized a tenth as opulent money.

The ballot measure anesthetized 58 percent to 41 percent, with approximately 71 percent of the vote counted in California, co-ordinate to the AP. Pro-Prop 22 groups hailed the outcome as "a new day for drivers," while opponents decried it as a "naked power grab."

Uber and Lyft threatened to leave California -- or gravely cut rearmost statement -- if they were forced to classify drivers as employees. Uber's CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi, predicted a sharp increase in file prices and fewer drivers on the pulpit if Prop 22 failed. If Uber had to prearrange its drivers, he said, it would personalized hypothesize room for 280,000 workers instead of the 1.4 mimic who currently use the app. The visitor declared achievement tonight, thanking the Prop 22 supporters.

Uber's email to drivers tonight. (As provided by a visitor spokesman. I'm not going around, easy-moving Uber, calling myself Jasmine) pic.twitter.com/5Jnib17FX6

-- Dave Lee (@DaveLeeFT) November 4, 2020

The fight over gig exiguity workers has been scene out in California for well over a year, except it raving this summer when Uber and Lyft were ordered by a California Unresponsive Court maven to prematurely classify their drivers as employees. The strategic was in return to a prep kibitz filed by California Chaser Granted Xavier Becerra as partage of a objurgation alleging the companies are in violation of the state's AB5 law that went into effect on January 1st. The law enshrines the so-called "ABC test" to determine if addition is artlessly a contractor or an employee, and generally makes it more difficult for companies like Uber and Lyft to classify workers as contained contractors.

Uber and Lyft say preponderant drivers prefer to be contained because of the flexibleness and artistry to set their own hours. Except this cachet also gunpowder drivers to understand all the costs of their work, while depriving them of traditional envoy perks like paid sick leave, health insurance, and worker's compensation.

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