Appeals Court Upholds California Gig Work Law, Dealing Blow to Uber

Ride-hailing service Uber’s attempts to challenge a California law that would classify transportation gig workers and delivery drivers as employees instead of independent contractors cannot move forward, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Monday. In its ruling, an 11-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco found that the California law, known as Assembly Bill 5, is, in fact, constitutional, despite Uber’s claims it is not. Monday’s ruling upheld a lower court ruling that found Uber had failed to show that the legislation improperly singled out app-based transportation companies while exempting many other industries....