{"id":139,"date":"2015-03-12T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2015\/03\/12\/legal-trend-ride-share-drivers-employees-or-independent-contractors\/"},"modified":"2015-03-12T15:30:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T15:30:00","slug":"legal-trend-ride-share-drivers-employees-or-independent-contractors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/legal-trend-ride-share-drivers-employees-or-independent-contractors\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal Trend: Ride Share Drivers Employees or Independent Contractors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lyft has been fighting a law suit\u00a0over whether its drivers are employees or indpendent contractors. This\u00a0determination is crucial to determine how much liability Lyft may have if something bad happens or\u00a0in reimbursing its drivers for \u00a0expenses.<\/p>\n<p>A San Fracnisco judge denied summary judgment motions and ruled that a jury should determine whther the ride share drivers are employees or independent contractors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/judge-rules-lawsuit-against-lyft-over-driver-classification-should-proceed-1426120759\">WallStreet Journal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lyft has been fighting a law suit\u00a0over whether its drivers are employees or indpendent contractors. This\u00a0determination is crucial to determine how much liability Lyft may have if something bad happens or\u00a0in reimbursing its drivers for \u00a0expenses.<\/p>\n<p>A San Fracnisco judge denied summary judgment motions and ruled that a jury should determine whther the ride share drivers are employees or independent contractors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/judge-rules-lawsuit-against-ly...<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,10,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-trend","category-legislative-trend","category-ride-share","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}