FILE PHOTO: The Uber logo is displayed on a mobile phone in this picture illustration taken November 25, 2019. REUTERS/Hannah McKay/Illustration
(Reuters) – California is planning to ask a state court judge to force Uber Technologies Inc (UBER.N) and Lyft Inc (LYFT.O) to classify their ride-hail drivers as employees, rather than contractors, ratcheting up the tension over a new gig worker law.
In a filing in the Superior Court of California in San Francisco on Wednesday, lawyers for California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said their office will file a request for a preliminary injunction.
Reporting by Tina Bellon; Editing by Sandra Maler
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