In this April 4, 2014 file photo, a sign for GrubHub is displayed on the door to a New York restaurant. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
(CN) A former Grubhub driver made a last-ditch entreaty to the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday hoping that a landmark change to California’s worker classification law will be enough to reverse his loss in federal court years ago.
Raef Lawson sued Grubhub in 2015 for misclassifying him as an independent contractor during the four months he spent delivering food in 2015 and 2016, making him ineligible for overtime pay and expense reimbursement.
Lawson brought his action under California’s Private Attorneys General Act, a law that allows private citizens to act in the place of the state attorney general to recover penalties for labor violations.
In the past few weeks, federal and state decisions in California regarding various employment-related claims in California, but particularly addressing California’s demanding pay.
/PRNewswire/ Nesenoff & Miltenberg, LLP, one of the nation s preeminent law firms specializing in the field of Title IX due process litigation and campus.
Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) May 28, 2021 The Los Angeles labor law attorneys, at Zakay Law Group, APLC and JCL Law Firm, APC, filed a class action complaint