Uber-backed gig worker initiative wins in California: US media

San Francisco (AFP) Nov 4, 2020

California voters have put the brakes on a state law that threatened to disrupt the "gig economy", or the use of smartphone apps to connect people with paying tasks such as providing rides or fetching take-away meals. Around 58 percent of voters in Tuesday's ballot backed a proposition that exempted ride-share rivals Uber and Lyft from a new state law requiring drivers to be treated as emplo