San Diego City Attorney Mara Elliott has sued grocery delivery company Instacart for allegedly misclassifying its workers as independent contractors.
Elliott said in a news release on Friday that Instacart’s shoppers don’t meet any of the three criteria for classifying a worker as an independent contractor spelled out in a California Supreme Court decision last year.
In the Dynamex decision, the high court said that in order to be considered an independent contractor, a worker must be free from the control and direction of the employer in performing the work.
But Ellio...
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