The specific question before the state’s highest court is whether Prop. 22 conflicts with the state Legislature’s constitutional power to enforce a complete workers’ compensation system. Because of…
File photo: Proposition 22, the gig industry-backed initiative that 58% of state voters passed in 2020, has been mired in a legal back-and-forth since it became law — including being ruled unconstitutional by a Superior Court judge before being upheld by a state appeals court.
John Mejia, an Alameda gig worker in his late 60s who has driven for Uber and Lyft for nine years, said contractor status means doing without safeguards given to virtually every other worker in California. “There’s no unemployment insurance. There is no workers comp. There’s no health insurance,” said Mejia, a member of the Gig Workers Union, an association representing Californians who work for corporations including Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, and Instacart.
“It’s unfair that you could take the ballot measure in California and build your own law and take advantage of the people who work with you and your customer,” Mejia said. If Prop. 22 is thrown out in its entirety, it would affect some gig workers who have come to depend on some of its provisions — such as guaranteed earnings of 120% of minimum wage for the time they spend driving or delivering, which they didn’t have before the initiative became law.
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