Uber and Lyft pickup sign For Uber and Lyft, Proposition 22 also amounts to a hall pass from landmark decisions by the California Supreme Court that define who's an employee in what's widely considered an employee-friendly state. (Photo: Shutterstock)

(Bloomberg) –In one fell swoop, Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. on Tuesday fended off labor protections that were decades in the making, allowing the companies to keep compensating their drivers as independent contractors.

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