The same day the Biden administration introduced a proposal to reclassify independent contractors as full-time employees, gig workers earned another big victory.
On Tuesday, Instacart settled a lawsuit with the city of San Diego and agreed to pay out $46.5 million to more than 300,000 current and former workers.
Filed in 2019, the suit alleged that the workers were misclassified as independent contractors. That ultimately held weight under the law with the passage of California’s Assembly Bill 5...
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