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Lyft to suspend services in California over order to classify drivers as employees

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Company announced suspension in blogpost as it awaits landmark decision which would enforce labor law AB5

Lyft has announced it will suspend its services in California starting Thursday at 11.59pm PT unless a court allows them to continue to classify drivers as contractors.

 

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Drivers prefer the current model 4:1. Vote yes on Prop 22.

Well, if Uber follows Lyft than won’t this present an excellent opportunity for California to show us all how it’s done with full time employees?The rest of the country can continue to use the innovative/flexible model that allows people to put $ in their pocket on their own time

Good. We don't allow child porn because 'cinema' . We shouldn't allow gig economy because 'capitalism'

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Lyft and Uber both leave CA... Great job killing more business in CA guys. Not like our states isn't drowning in debt and desperate for cash flow....

If you can't give your employees basic provisions, you don't have a business model.

Time to disband all of them!

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