Massachusetts gig worker ballot initiative faces skeptical judges

A ballot initiative that would define gig drivers for companies like Uber may have trouble getting on the ballot in Massachussets.

The Massachusetts gig worker initiative, patterned after California’s Prop 22, may not make it to the ballot in November after all.

Two separate news reports on a court hearing held last week regarding the initiative both suggested that the state’s highest court, the Supreme Judicial Court was skeptical that the initiative, backed by Uber, Lyft and DoorDash, should qualify for the ballot. A report in Bloomberg Law described the judges who heard the argument as “wary.” A Reuters report from the...

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