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The U.S. Labor Department has been playing musical chairs in its approach to classifying workers as independent contractors or employees under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act since.
Where the Massachusetts attorney general has certified two initiative petitions proposing “A Law Defining and Regulating the Contract-Based Relationship Between Network Companies and App-Based Drivers,” the certification decision was in error, as the petitions contain at least two substantively distinct policy decisions, one of which is buried in obscure language at the end of the
Two initiative petitions that would classify app-based drivers as independent contractors could not appear on the 2022 ballot, the Supreme Judicial Court has ruled. The plaintiffs, 12 voters registered in Massachusetts, challenged the certifications of two initiative petitions, each proposing “A Law Defining and Regulating the Contract-Based Relationship Between Network Companies and App-Based Drivers.” The