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

The State of California and three cities have filed a lawsuit accusing Uber and Lyft of breaking the state’s new AB-5 “gig worker” law by misclassifying drivers as contractors instead of employees.

And the two San Francisco ride-hailing giants are pushing a financial burden onto taxpayers as their drivers collect unemployment benefits from funds the companies have not paid into, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra alleged in announcing the lawsuit.