Uber and Lyft sued by Massachusetts over worker misclassification

The US state of Massachusetts filed a lawsuit against Uber and Lyft yesterday (Tuesday, July 14) saying that the companies are misclassifying their drivers as contractors when they should be employees. This shouldn’t come as a surprise, the companies are coming under the exact same scrutiny in California. “For years Uber and Lyft have built their billion-dollar businesses on a model that exploits drivers,” Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey said when announcing the lawsuit. “Uber and Lyft set the rates. They alone set the rules. Drivers are employees.” [Read: German court slams the brakes on Tesla’s bogus ‘Autopilot’ marketing] “For…

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