If the three-year-old lawsuit collapses, Uber would escape without any significant changes to its business model while keeping hundreds of thousands of California and Massachusetts drivers classified as independent contractors.
Lyft's proposal to pay its California drivers $53 each to drop claims that they should be treated like employees was rejected by a judge as glaringly inadequate.
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