DC sues Shipt for misclassifying drivers as independent contractors
by Makena Kelly from The Verge - All Posts on (#65693)
DC Attorney General Karl Racine appears before the US Supreme Court. | Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images DC Attorney General Karl Racine sued Shipt, a gig delivery company, Thursday for misclassifying full-time workers as independent contractors in order to cheat" them out of wages and avoid payroll taxes.
In the Thursday complaint, Racine accuses Shipt of unlawfully denying full-time delivery workers basic employment benefits and protections by wrongfully classifying them as contractors. Specifically, the suit claims that Shipt misrepresents the nature of a delivery driver's work, suggesting that the worker acts as their own boss." But in reality, drivers are required to sign up for hourly shifts, and the amount of money they make depends on the number of orders placed within that timeframe. If no orders are placed, drivers don't turn a...