Delivery company DoorDash is facing a lawsuit from the San Francisco district attorney over allegedly illegally classifying its workers as contractors rather than employees.
The charge comes with the accusation that the company failed to help its employees navigate the economic fallout of the pandemic by denying them full benefits and better pay, according to District Attorney Chesa Boudin in a Tweet.
Boudin, in a press release, said that calling employees contractors “deprives them of the labor law safeguards to which they are entitled, denying workers minimum wage and overtime pay, unemployment insurance and protection from discrimination, among other things.”
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