An appellate court must sort through several legal interpretations after hearing arguments on whether California should allow Prop 22, the 2020 referendum designed to exempt the state’s gig workers from the AB5 independent contractor classification law.
Voters approved Prop 22 by a hefty margin on Election Day in 2020. It blocked gig drivers, like those from Uber (NYSE: UBER), Lyft (NASDAQ: LYFT) and DoorDash (NYSE: DASH), from being governed by AB5. But Alameda County Judge Frank Roesch ruled...