Uber and Lyft won't shut down service in California at the end of Thursday as they had threatened to do after an appeals court temporarily delayed an order that would have forced them to reclassify their drivers as employees
Uber and Lyft narrowly avoided shutting down their ride-hailing services in California after an appellate court granted the companies a temporary reprieve delaying an order that would have forced them to reclassify their drivers in the state by Friday.
While the legal decision on Thursday buys the companies more time, they still do have a deadline hanging over their heads to reclassify their drivers as employees rather than independent contractors.
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