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Lyft's $270 Million Misclassification Suit

Lyft's $270 Million Misclassification Suit Background On October 1, 2026, the California Labor Commissioner’s Office announced that it had settled a lawsuit it had brought against the popular rideshare app Lyft, with Lyft paying a record $272.5 million dollars to California rideshare drivers over employee classification issues. Lyft is one of the two largest rideshare services in America, and there are over 800,000 rideshare drivers across the state. In recent years, rideshare apps have largely overtaken taxis as the preeminent on-demand driver service in the

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