Labor/Employment
Apr. 9, 2020
US judge blocks Lyft drivers’ bid for California sick pay
U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria found most of the drivers would qualify for little or no state sick leave and would risk disqualification from more generous federal aid for self-employed workers.
Denying an emergency bid to force Lyft Inc. to give sick pay to drivers, a federal judge denounced the effort as an attempt to “capitalize on the coronavirus pandemic” while condemning the company for openly flouting state labor laws.
“There are no heroes in the story of this case,” U.S. Judge Vince Chhabria of the Northern District of California wrote in a Tuesday order.
A proposed class of Lyft d...
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