Uber, Lyft and others raise concern over Julie Su’s stance on worker classification. A group representing Uber, Lyft and other app-based services is raising concern about President Biden’s no...
http://capoliticalreview.com/top-stories/gig-firms-fight-bidens-labor-pick/
App-based ride hailing and delivery companies like Uber and Lyft can continue to treat their California drivers as independent contractors, a state appeals court ruled Monday, allowing the tech g...
http://capoliticalreview.com/top-stories/california-court-rules-for-uber-lyft-in-ride-hailing-case/
Welcome to Pandemic Problems, an advice column from The Chronicle’s engagement reporters that aims to help Bay Area residents solve their pandemic and post-pandemic conundrums — personal, pra...
Ride-hail companies desperate to stop a proposed California law that would force them to treat workers as employees are suddenly offering to boost driver pay and benefits. And they’ve pledged $...
http://capoliticalreview.com/trending/a-california-bill-has-uber-and-lyft-running-scared/
An anti-technology movement from early 19th century Britain has long been part of our lexicon. Luddites were knitters who destroyed textile machines to protect their jobs. Today the term applie...
http://capoliticalreview.com/top-stories/californias-work-rules-sabotage-the-gig-economy/
What was the biggest local business story of the year? With a sigh, I vote for the state Supreme Court’s decision in April that basically outlawed the gig economy in California. I sigh because ...
http://capoliticalreview.com/top-stories/dont-kill-the-growing-gig-economy/
In a recent sweeping ruling that helps labor unions but runs contrary to small businesses and Silicon Valley innovation and the developing “gig” economy inspired by companies like Uber and Ly...
As reported by CBS13: SACRAMENTO — If you’ve ever gotten a traffic violation, you know it all too well that California’s traffic fines are among the highest in the nation. But a state Senat...
http://capoliticalreview.com/trending/california-bill-would-tie-traffic-fines-to-violators-income/
While many conservative claims about paid protesters demonstrating against President Trump have been met with skepticism and dismissal — in the Bay Area — some of them might actually be getti...
http://capoliticalreview.com/top-stories/bay-area-companies-paying-employees-to-protest-trump/
As reported by the Chicago Tribune: Uber pulled its self-driving cars from California roads after state regulators moved to revoke their registrations, officials said. The move comes after a wee...
http://capoliticalreview.com/trending/uber-pulls-self-driving-cars-from-california-roads/
Beverly Hills Mayor John A. Mirisch has taken Uber’s side in its fight with the State of California over the company’s effort to roll out self-driving cars without a special permit. Mirisch b...
As reported by CNN Money: Shervin Pishevar, an early Uber investor and cofounder of Hyperloop, posted a series of tweets Tuesday night announcing his plans to fund “a legitimate campaign for C...
http://capoliticalreview.com/trending/tech-founders-want-california-to-secede/
As reported by Forbes.com: A federal judge has thrown out a proposed $100 million settlement negotiated by a Boston lawyer on behalf of more than 200,000 Uber drivers in California and Massachuse...
Labor groups have sought out relationships with Uber drivers, whom the company recently settled with, but has yet to classify as employees. “A day after Uber announced a $100 million settlemen...
http://capoliticalreview.com/top-stories/unions-target-uber-and-lyft-as-next-payday/
As reported by the Los Angeles Times: State regulators on Thursday granted companies such as Uber and Lyft permission to offer carpooling, sanctioning a service that has allowed fast-growing San ...
There’s been a lot of chatter in California these days about Uber, Lyft and so-called “transportation network companies,” or TNCs – and why not? After all, these evolving services were ...
http://capoliticalreview.com/top-stories/unintended-consequences-of-uber-boom/
Sharing. It sounds so simple, but as an economic trend, sharing is a divisive issue for Democrats. Tension over the so-called “sharing economy” has been on full display in Sacramento, with De...
As reported by the Los Angeles Times: The push to make Los Angeles International Airport the largest in the nation to allow Uber and Lyft has hit an obstacle at City Hall as the ride-hailing serv...
http://capoliticalreview.com/trending/l-a-hits-the-brakes-on-plan-to-allow-uber-at-lax/
The way things are going, Uber may soon face a court challenge in California over its failure to use an umlaut. The popular ridesharing startup has already been hit by an administrative law judge...
http://capoliticalreview.com/top-stories/californias-uber-hunt/
As reported by the L.A. Times: Long Beach officials are pursuing a new strategy to resolve the growing rift between taxi drivers and ride-hailing services such as Uber and Lyft, becoming the nati...