Gig-economy companies including Uber Technologies Inc. and DoorDash Inc. won passage of a California ballot measure protecting their contract-worker systems, a major victory the companies hope will help them beat back challenges to their business models elsewhere in the U.S. and beyond.
After a decade of robust growth, ride-share and food-delivery companies have spent the past couple of years reckoning with efforts by policy makers and labor advocates to reclassify drivers as employees rather than as independent contractors….
