Lyft car. Jason Doiy/ALM.
Prominent on-demand companies Lyft Inc. and Postmates Inc. are unlawfully classifying their workers as independent contractors, according to new lawsuits that mark the beginning of an anticipated flood of cases tethered to a California Supreme Court ruling that upended employee classification schemes.
Shannon Liss-Riordan, a Boston-based lawyer who has long challenged how gig economy companies classify their workforces, filed two separate lawsuits this week on behalf of workers for Postmates, an on-demand delivery service, and the ride-hailing company Lyft.
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