The Case for an Uber Compromise

Hi all, it’s Eric. We could be just a week away from Uber disappearing from its home state.

San Francisco Superior Court Judge Ethan Schulman decided this week that Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. are likely to lose their legal fight over a California law requiring workers in most cases to be treated as employees, not independent contractors, if they do work within the normal course of a company’s business. He issued an injunction requiring them to start treating drivers as employees, but gave them 10 days to appeal before they had to comply. The companies did just that, while also threatening on Wednesday to leave California over the decision.