Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. misclassify their workers as independent contractors and rob them of protection from Massachusetts’ worker-friendly laws, the attorney general’s office told a state court judge on the first day of a trial over their status.
“Both companies are much more than disinterested intermediaries that are connecting buyers and sellers,” Assistant Attorney General Douglas Martland said in the office’s opening statement Monday at the Massachusetts Superior Court, Suffolk County.
The outcome of the trial will clarify how Massachusetts’s strict classification laws, which predated Uber and Lyft, apply to this emerging workforce of app-based drivers.
The attorney ...
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