https://www.siliconvalley.com/2020/05/05/uber-and-lyft-pushing-coronavirus-burden-onto-taxpayers-california-ag-says-while-suing-firms/

Uber and Lyft, in breaking California’s new law designating many workers in the so-called gig economy as employees, are pushing a financial burden onto taxpayers as the firms’ drivers are collecting unemployment benefits from funds the companies have not paid into, California’s Attorney General alleges.

Attorney General Xavier Becerra, joined by city attorneys in San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego, on Tuesday sued the two San Francisco ride-hailing giants for allegedly violating AB-5, the gig-worker law that came into effect Jan. 1 and requires many workers considered contractors to be treated as employees, with benefits.