Trying to keep up with the twisty,

turny legal battle over gig workers

can really give you whiplash.

From American public media, this is Marketplace Tech.

I'm Meg McCarty Carino.

To be employees or not to be employees.

That is the question lawmakers, voters and courts

have been trying to answer about gig workers.

Employees, of course, get certain rights and benefits

that independent contractors don't.

Back in 2020, California voters approved a measure

called Proposition 22 that allowed

at-based gig platforms like Uber and Lyft

to classify drivers as contractors

with some extra benefits.

So far, it's held up in court,

but legal challenges remain.

Gigweedee's Rachel Myrow has more

on what's next for gig workers.

The first thing to know about Scott

from LA County is that he's unaffiliated

with either the union suing Uber

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