Labor/Employment,
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Jun. 10, 2021
Gig worker challenge gets 9th Circuit hearing
Shannon Liss-Riordan, a partner at Lichten & Liss-Riordan, PC who has brought many misclassification claims against gig companies, filed her lawsuit against Grubhub in 2015, arguing the food delivery company misclassified her client as an independent contractor.
A landmark California Supreme Court decision that made it harder to classify workers as independent contractors is retroactive, but Proposition 22, a law that created an exception to this rule for app-based drivers only applies going forward, an attorney for a Grubhub driver argued before the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday.
Shannon Liss-Riordan, a partner at Lichten & Liss-Riordan, PC who has brought many misclass...
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