Judge Orders Uber, Lyft to Classify Drivers as Employees

A Northern California judge on Monday issued an injunction ordering Uber and Lyft to reclassify their drivers after concluding there is no way the transportation network companies can rebut the presumption that the drivers are employees. San Francisco Superior Court Judge Ethan P. Schulman wrote in Monday’s decision that neither Uber nor Lyft can satisfy the second prong of a three-part test of employee status that took effect at the start of the year. The so-called ABC test presumes workers are employees unless the employer proves the workers are free from control and direction, perfor...