Instacart Delivery App Accused of Worker Misclassification (2)

Instacart is a grocery delivery service that’s allegedly misrepresenting itself as a tech business and misclassifying its workers to avoid complying with federal and state labor laws, according to a lawsuit filed in the Northern District of Illinois.

Katherine O’Shea, Brian Posner, and Tom Bacon seek to represent a proposed class of Illinois-based Instacart “Shoppers,” including personal shoppers, drivers, and delivery workers. The Shoppers claim that Instacart willfully misclassified them as independent contractors, causing wage-and-hour violations under the Fair Labor Standards Act and Illinois law.

Maplebear Inc., doing business as Instacart, operates an on-demand system that dispatches shoppers, via mobile ...