The California Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to review whether a public injunction can apply to employment claims under the Golden State's Unfair Competition law, denying a petition lodged by a group of Lyft Inc. drivers who claimed they were misclassified and therefore denied paid sick leave during the pandemic.
The drivers had urged the Supreme Court to undo an appellate court's July decision finding that they couldn't appeal a decision denying their request for a preliminary injunction. In their suit, the drivers claimed that they didn't have access to paid sick leave during the COVID-19 pandemic because they had been misclassified as independent contractors. The justices rejected their petition in a case docket entry Wednesday.
Lyft is represented by Keker attorneys R. James Slaughter, Ian Kanig and Gene Paige.
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