The US Supreme Court shut the door on a bid by Uber Technologies Inc. and its subsidiary Postmates Inc. to revive their constitutional challenge to California’s worker-friendly employment classification law.
The justices Tuesday left in place a ruling by the full US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit that threw out the companies’ lawsuit against the measure known as AB 5, which treats most workers by default as employees with broader rights than independent contractors.
Uber, Postmates and other app-based ride-hail and delivery businesses are exempt from AB 5 under Proposition 22, an initiative that the companies funded and ...
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