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Ride-hailing, delivery giants win fight against labor law

by Cathy BussewitzMichael Liedtke
| November 4, 2020 12:27 PM

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — App-based companies like Uber, Lyft and Doordash have dodged a potentially devastating blow to their industry by carving out an exemption from a California law that required them to classify their drivers as employees instead of contractors.

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