Uber Loses Bid to Topple California’s Gig Worker Status Law (2)

Uber Technologies Inc., Postmates Inc., and other gig employers failed to convince a federal appeals court that California unconstitutionally targeted ride-hail and other app-based companies through a law that treats most workers by default as employees with broader rights than independent contractors.

An 11-judge en banc panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Monday rejected the companies’ contention that a hostile, labor-friendly California Legislature aimed the law known as AB 5 at the gig industry.

Gig companies largely classifies drivers, delivery people, and others as independent contractors who aren’t legally entitled to overtime ...