Am I Owed Wages, Expense Reimbursements and Other Compensation?
Ridesharing and gig-work companies such as Lyft, Uber, Doordash, Postmates, Uber Eats, and Grub Hub misclassified workers as “contract employees” for years, and gained millions in profits doing so. These corporations did not pay for any employees’ benefits, yet treated their workers as employees. As proposition 22 has impacted the law moving forward after 2020, these workers are still entitled to past overtime wages, minimum wages, and other benefits.
Overtime Wages and Minimum Wages
These companies did not pay workers wages for waiting for work, travel time, and other working hours during the time they worked. You may entitled to being compensated for these owed wages, interest, and penalties, which could add up to a substantial amount.
Unreimbursed Business Expenses
Workers were required to pay for their vehicle, gas, cell phone, insurance, and other related expenses to service the ridesharing or gig-work company’s customers. You may entitled to being reimbursed for these expenses.
Meal and Rest Breaks
Ridesharing workers were entitled to 30-minute duty-free meal breaks and 10-minute duty-free rest breaks. Ridesharing workers did not get this opportunity and entitled to premium pay wages from the ridesharing or gig-work employer for this failure.
If you were an Uber or Lyft driver, or did gig-work for companies such as Doordash, Postmates, Uber Eats, Grub Hub, no matter how short of time, we want to hear from you. Give us a call at 949-281-6857.