California Labor Commissioner's Office

Money Moves

Filed the original lawsuit, helped negotiate the settlement, and redirected its penalty share to drivers

Lyft agreed on September 30 to pay $272.5 million to settle claims it misclassified California drivers as independent contractors, the largest wage-and-hour settlement in the state's history. The deal is not final: as of October 18, Judge Ethan P. Schulman of San Francisco Superior Court had not signed the judgment that starts the payment clock.

Updated Oct 20